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Gettin' Up (album)

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Released
  
1967

Artist
  
Johnny "Hammond" Smith

Producer
  
Cal Lampley

Genre
  
Jazz

Gettin' Up (1967)
  
Soul Flowers (1967)

Release date
  
1967

Label
  
Prestige Records

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Recorded
  
March 3, 1967 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Johnny "Hammond" Smith albums
  
Soul Flowers, The Stinger Meets the Golden T, The Stinger, Here It 'Tis, Johnny "Hammond" Cooks wit

Gettin' Up (also released as Ebb Tide) is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith recorded for the Prestige label in 1967.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is superior organ-soul-jazz with a feistier edge than much of the genre... there's a brash energy that makes it a cut or two above the norm".

Track listing

All compositions by Johnny "Hammond" Smith except as indicated

  1. "The Sin-In" - 4:20
  2. "Stand By Me" (Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 2:40
  3. "Knock On Wood" (Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper) - 2:45
  4. "The Soulful Blues" - 7:25
  5. "Ebb Tide" (Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman) - 2:40
  6. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 3:30
  7. "Gettin' Up" - 6:10
  8. "The 'In' Crowd" (Billy Page) - 3:15

Personnel

  • Johnny "Hammond" Smith - organ
  • Virgil Jones - trumpet
  • Houston Person - tenor saxophone
  • Thornel Schwartz - guitar
  • Jimmy Lewis - electric bass
  • John Harris - drums
  • Production

  • Cal Lampley - producer
  • Rudy Van Gelder - engineer
  • References

    Gettin' Up (album) Wikipedia