Groovin' At Smalls Paradise - Classic Vinyl Series #.show-split The Third Cup

The Third Cup

1960’s True Blue is a hard bop masterpiece featuring Brooks’ distinctive compositions performed by an exceptional quintet with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet

he never stopped writing music that belonged to a different harmonic universe influenced by the likes of Wayne Shorter

and Noël Coward

Until the emergence of Larry Young the Hammond B3 organ tradition was firmly rooted in Soul Jazz

Groovin' At Smalls Paradise - Classic Vinyl Series #.show-split The Third CupBlue Note, 1958 Blue Note co founder Francis Wolff once recalled: 'I first heard Jimmy Smith at Smalls' Paradise in January of 1956. It was his first gig in New York. He was a stunning sight. A man in convulsions, face contorted, crouched over in apparent agony, his fingers flying, his feet dancing over the pedals. The air was filled with waves of sound I had never heard before.' After discovering Smith, Alfred Lion recorded the Hammond B3 organ