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Released
  
1968

Artist
  
Johnny "Hammond" Smith

Producer
  
Cal Lampley

Genre
  
Jazz

Soul Flowers (1967)
  
Dirty Grape (1968)

Release date
  
1968

Label
  
Prestige Records

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Recorded
  
September 27, 1967 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Johnny "Hammond" Smith albums
  
Dirty Grape, The Stinger Meets the Golden T, Here It 'Tis, Gettin' Up, Talk That Talk

Soul Flowers is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith recorded for the Prestige label in 1967.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating "When a soul-jazz artist decides to devote the bulk of his album to pop standards and themes from the movies, stage, and TV, he better make damn sure that he interprets them in an inventive fashion. Fortunately, that's what Smith manages to do on this 1967 session".

Track listing

All compositions by Johnny "Hammond" Smith except as indicated

  1. "N.Y.P.D." (Charles Gross) - 3:30
  2. "Dirty Apple" - 5:00
  3. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 3:20
  4. "Ode to Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry) - 3:15
  5. "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 3:10
  6. "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:05
  7. "Tara's Theme" (Max Steiner) - 3:35
  8. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 4:45
  9. "I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles, Renald Richard) - 5:20

Personnel

  • Johnny "Hammond" Smith - organ
  • Earl Edwards, Houston Person - tenor saxophone
  • Wally Richardson - guitar
  • Jimmy Lewis - electric bass
  • John Harris - drums
  • Richie "Pablo" Landrum - congas

    • Production

  • Cal Lampley - producer
  • Rudy Van Gelder - engineer

    • Songs

    1Theme From NYPD3:26
    2Dirty Apple5:04
    3The Days of Wine and Roses3:24

    References

    Soul Flowers Wikipedia
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