Video of the Week #31

Organist Jimmy Smith helped me make the transition from being a rhythm and blues fan to someone who also liked jazz.  Blue Note used to release abbreviated versions of their album cuts as singles, which sometimes received radio play.  Somewhere along the way, I realized that listening to Smith play "Back at the Chicken Shack," with Kenny Burrell on guitar and Stanley Turrentine on tenor sax, was not very different from listening to Bill Doggett play "Honky Tonk," with Billy Butler on guitar and Clifford Scott on tenor sax.

Here Jimmy Smith plays "The Sermon," with Quentin Warren on guitar and Billy Hart on drums, for BBC television in 1964.