[HAM] New Jimmy Smith songs released

[Scott Hawthorn]

At 10:35 AM 6/2/2007, you wrote:
>Martin Petersen brought to my attention on another list that Blue Note Plans
>to release a CD of previously unreleased tracks by Jimmy Smith recorded in
>1961.  Its just amazing to me that BlueNote never bothered to sell these
>tunes.  In my view that was his seminal period in terms of defining the JOS
>sound.  I'm curious about why the producers axed these tunes for so long,
>and why Smith went along with it. I'll be ordering the CD as soon as it
>comes out.

I saw that too. Exciting. I don't know why they didn't release them before, 
but that's never stopped me from guessing. First, I doubt that Jimmy was 
consulted about what to release. That's not how these things work. The main 
thing is that his output was enormous; it probably wouldn't have made 
commercial sense for them to flood the market with too many JOS recordings 
all at once. After that, it could be that they just forgot about it.