Home Cookin’ ~ Jimmy Smith | By Eddie Carter

I’d had a really long week and wanted to hear some organ jazz when I came across a title I always enjoyed but hadn’t listened to in a while. Jimmy Smith provides the recipe for seven courses of hard bop and soul-jazz with a side of the blues in Home Cookin’ (Blue Note BLP 4050/BST 84050). It’s a delicious quartet meal of pure organ bliss taken from three different sessions that hit the stores in 1961. Jimmy is joined by Percy France (tracks:…