I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.Jimmy Smith
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People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.
Jimmy Smith
All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.
Jimmy Smith
And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
Jimmy Smith
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
Jimmy Smith
Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
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My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
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I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.
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