At Club Baby Grand

Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Leggett states "It's all Jimmy Smith in full flight, bubbling over with cascading notes and breathless detours, and if his studio work is generally more structured and considered (but only a little more so), this set shows him in what was his natural habitat, astounding an audience in a small club. Bailey keeps up with things and Schwartz gets a word in now and then, but this is Smith's show all the way".

Track listing

Volume One

1. Introduction by Mitch Thomas - 0:59
2. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) - 9:33
3. "Where or When" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 9:17
4. "The Preacher" (Horace Silver) - 11:55
5. "Rosetta" (Earl Hines, Henri Woode) - 10:08

Volume Two

1. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) - 10:18
2. "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) - 10:46
3. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 7:27
4. "It's All Right with Me" (Cole Porter) - 11:53

Recorded at Club Baby Grand in Wilmington, Delaware on August 4, 1956

Personnel

Jimmy Smith – organ

Thornel Schwartz - guitar

Donald Bailey – drums