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Jimmy Smith

"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."

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"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."

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Akiroq Brost

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

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Akiroq Brost

"It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought."

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Akiroq Brost

"With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!"

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Akiroq Brost

"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."

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Akiroq Brost

"My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel."

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Akiroq Brost

"My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences."

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Akiroq Brost

"No, my son's a songwriter and he does that."

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Akiroq Brost

"To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it."

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Akiroq Brost

"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."

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Jimmy Smith
"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."

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Jimmy Smith
"I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was."

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Jimmy Smith
"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."

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Jimmy Smith
"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."

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Jimmy Smith
"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

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Jimmy Smith
"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

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Jimmy Smith
"And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find."

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Jimmy Smith
"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ."

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Jimmy Smith
"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio."

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Jimmy Smith
"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad."

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