Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith
Person

Jimmy Smith

Actor 1925-12-08 Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music. In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that America bestows upon jazz musicians. James Oscar Smith was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania northwest of Philadelphia. He joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine in clubs at the age of six. He began teaching ...

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Champs-Elysées

Champs-Elysées

1982 · Self

Street Girls

Street Girls

1975 · Jimmy

One Night with Blue Note

One Night with Blue Note

2004 · Self

Jazz Icons: Jimmy Smith Live in '69

Jazz Icons: Jimmy Smith Live in '69

2009 · Self

Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith

1966 · Self

Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 2. Ein Jazz-Organist in Amerika

1966 · Self