Back at the Chicken Shack
Back at the Chicken Shack is a Jimmy Smith album recorded in 1960 and released in 1963 on the Blue Note label, from the same sessions as Midnight Special; it was later cited in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.^[raw/articles/wikipedia-back-at-the-chicken-shack.md]
The Hammond in it
The definitive Smith trio-plus format: Smith on organ with Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax), Kenny Burrell (guitar, tracks 1/4/5) and Donald Bailey (drums), produced by Alfred Lion and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder, with design by Reid Miles.^[raw/articles/wikipedia-back-at-the-chicken-shack.md]
Musically it is Smith's blues-drenched sideline to his bebop outings — walking bass pedals, drawbar growl and harmonic percussion in service of a slow blues title track that became one of his signature records, and a key document of the Blue Note organ sound (see b3-beyond-jimmy-smith).^[raw/articles/wikipedia-jimmy-smith.md]