Softly as a Summer Breeze (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) Tom Walker whose intuitive contributions to their

whose intuitive contributions to their previous studio album

Allman-esque “The Great Mystifier” to the chiming falsetto soul of “It Will If We Let It

As La Planète Sauvage celebrates its half-century

the musicians fearlessly strip everything back and deliver ten acoustic tracks

Softly as a Summer Breeze (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) Tom Walker whose intuitive contributions to theirThe last week of February in 1958 was a productive one for Jimmy Smith. Over two days the incredible Hammond B3 organist set up shop in Manhattan Towers studio and recorded three albums worth of material: House Party, The Sermon, and Softly As A Summer Breeze, the last of which wouldnt be released until 1965. The album featured Smith in two different trios: four tracks with Kenny Burrellon guitar and Philly Joe Jones drums, as well as two tracks with