Softly as a Summer Breeze

For the Eddie Heywood song, see Soft Summer Breeze.
Softly as a Summer Breeze
Studio album by
Jimmy Smith
Released1965
RecordedFebruary 26, 1958
October 14, 1958 (bonus tracks)
StudioManhattan Towers, New York
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ (bonus tracks)
GenreJazz
Length49:32
LabelBlue Note
ProducerAlfred Lion
Jimmy Smith chronology
The Sermon!
(1957) 		Softly as a Summer Breeze
(1965) 		Cool Blues
(1958)

Softly as a Summer Breeze is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1958 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1965.[1] The album was rereleased on CD with four bonus tracks recorded at a later session.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating

"Softly As a Summer Breeze is one of Jimmy Smith's more obscure Blue Notes... Overall, this CD is not too essential, but it does fill in a few gaps."[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Track listing

  1. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 5:27
  2. "Hackensack" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:58
  3. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 6:16
  4. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 8:21
  5. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:30
  6. "One for Philly Joe" [aka "Home Cookin'"] (Jimmy Smith) – 4:46

Bonus tracks on 1998 CD reissue

  2. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 3:24
  3. "Ain't No Use" (Leroy Kirkland, Sidney Wyche) – 2:40
  4. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 3:25
  5. "Ain't That Love" (Ray Charles) – 2:45
  • Recorded at Manhattan Towers, New York, on February 26, 1958 (tracks 1–6) and at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on October 14, 1958 (tracks 7–10).

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

References

  1. ^ Blue Note discography accessed November 29, 2010
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed November 26, 2010