# Jimmy Smith discography

This is a discography of American jazz organist Jimmy Smith (1928–2005).

## Discography
### As leader/co-leader
#### Blue Note years (1956–1963; 1986, 1993)

| Year released | Label | Catalogue | Title | Recording date | Notes |
| 1956 | Blue Note | BLP 1512 | A New Sound... A New Star..., Vol. 1 | 1956-02-18 | |
| 1956 | Blue Note | BLP 1514 | A New Sound – A New Star, Vol. 2 | 1956-03-27 | AKA The Champ |
| 1956 | Blue Note | BLP 1525 | Jimmy Smith at the Organ | 1956-06-17, -18 | AKA The Incredible Jimmy Smith, Vol. 3 |
| 1956 | Blue Note | BLP 1528 | At Club Baby Grand, Volume 1 | 1956-08-04 | Live |
| 1956 | Blue Note | BLP 1529 | At Club Baby Grand, Volume 2 | 1956-08-04 | Live |
| 1957 | Blue Note | BLP 1547 | A Date with Jimmy Smith, Volume One | 1957-02-11, -12, -13 | |
| 1957 | Blue Note | BLP 1548 | A Date with Jimmy Smith, Volume Two | 1957-02-11, -12, -13 | |
| 1957 | Blue Note | BLP 1551 | Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Volume 1 | 1957-02-12, -13 | |
| 1957 | Blue Note | BLP 1552 | Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Volume 2 | 1957-02-12, -13 | |
| 1957 | Blue Note | BLP 1556 | The Sounds of Jimmy Smith | 1957-02-11, -12, -13 | |
| 1957 | Blue Note | BLP 1563 | Plays Pretty Just for You | 1957-05-08 | |
| 1958 | Blue Note | BLP 1585 | Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise, Volume 1 | 1957-11-15 | Live |
| 1958 | Blue Note | BLP 1586 | Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise, Volume 2 | 1957-11-15 | Live |
| 1958 | Blue Note | BLP 4002 | House Party | 1957-08-25, 1958-02-25 | |
| 1959 | Blue Note | BLP 4011 | The Sermon! | 1957-08-25, 1958-02-25 | |
| 1960 | Blue Note | BLP 4030 | Crazy! Baby | 1960-01–04 | |
| 1961 | Blue Note | BLP 4050 | Home Cookin' | 1958-07–15, 1959–05–24, 1959-06–16 | |
| 1961 | Blue Note | BLP 4078 | Midnight Special | 1960-04–25 | |
| 1962 | Blue Note | BLP 4100 | Plays Fats Waller | 1962-01–23 | |
| 1963 | Blue Note | BLP 4117 | Back at the Chicken Shack | 1960-04–25 | |
| 1963 | Blue Note | BLP 4141 | Rockin' the Boat | 1963-02–07 | |
| 1964 | Blue Note | BLP 4164 | Prayer Meetin' | 1963-02–08 | With Stanley Turrentine |
| 1965 | Blue Note | BLP 4200 | Softly as a Summer Breeze | 1958-02–26, 1958–10–14 | |
| 1966 | Blue Note | BLP 4235 | Bucket! | 1963-02–01 | |
| 1967 | Blue Note | BLP 4255 | I'm Movin' On | 1963-01–31 | |
| 1968 | Blue Note | BST 4269 | Open House | 1960-03–22 | |
| 1968 | Blue Note | BST 4296 | Plain Talk | 1960-03–22 | |
| 1979 | Blue Note | LT 992 | Confirmation | 1957-08–25, 1958-02–25 | |
| 1980 | Blue Note | LT 1054 | Cool Blues | 1958–04–07 | Live |
| 1981 | Blue Note | LT 1092 | On the Sunny Side | 1957–08–25, 1958–07–15, 1959–06–16, 1960-04–25 | |
| 1984 | Blue Note | | Special Guests | 1957-08–25, 1960–06–13, 1963-01–31 | Japan only release |
| 1985 | Blue Note | | Jimmy Smith Trio + LD | 1957-07–04 | Japan only release. With Lou Donaldson. |
| 1986 | Blue Note | | Go for Whatcha Know | 1986-01-02, -03 | |
| 1994 | Blue Note | | The Master | 1993-12-24, -25 | Live |
| 1994 | Blue Note | | The Master II | 1993-12-24, -25 | Live |
| 1996 | Blue Note | | Cherokee | 1957-05–08, 1957-07–03 | Japan only release |
| 1996 | Blue Note | | Lonesome Road | 1957-11–20 | Japan only release |
| 1998 | Blue Note | | Standards | 1957-08–27, 1958–07–15, 1959-05–24 | |
| 1999 | Blue Note | | Six Views of the Blues | 1958-07–16 | |
| 2007 | Blue Note | | Straight Life | 1961-06–22 | |

#### Verve years (1962–1968; 1971–1973; 1995, 2000)

| Year released | Label | Catalogue | Title | Recording date | Notes |
| 1962 | Verve | V-8474 | Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith | 1962-03 | |
| 1963 | Verve | V-8544 | Hobo Flats | 1963-03 | |
| 1963 | Verve (JP)/Metro | SMV-1059 | Live at the Village Gate | 1963-05 | Live |
| 1963 | Verve | V-8552 | Any Number Can Win | 1963-07 | |
| 1963 | Verve | V-8553 | Blue Bash! | 1963-07 | With Kenny Burrell |
| 1964 | Verve | V-8583 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 1964-01 | |
| 1964 | Verve | V-8587 | The Cat | 1964-04 | |
| 1964 | Verve | V-8604 | Christmas '64 | 1964-04, 1964-09 | |
| 1965 | Verve | V-8618 | Monster | 1965-01 | |
| 1965 | Verve (FR) | | La metamorphose des cloportes | 1965-06 | [7"] EP |
| 1965 | Verve | V-8628 | Organ Grinder Swing | 1965-06 | |
| 1965 | Verve (DE)/Metro | 711 058 | In Hamburg – Live! also released as Incredible! Jimmy Smith | 1965? | Live |
| 1966 | Verve | V-8641 | Got My Mojo Workin' | 1965-12 | |
| 1966 | Verve | V-8652 | Peter & the Wolf | 1966-05 | |
| 1966 | Verve | V-8666 | Christmas Cookin' | 1964-04, 1964-09 | reissue of V-8604 |
| 1966 | Verve | V-8663 | Hoochie Coochie Man | 1966-06 | |
| 1966 | Verve | V-8678 | Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo | 1966-09 | With Wes Montgomery |
| 1967 | Verve | V-8705 | Respect | 1967-06 | |
| 1968 | Verve | V-8745 | Stay Loose | 1968-01 | |
| 1968 | Verve | V-8750 | Livin' It Up! | 1968-05 | |
| 1968 | Verve | V6-8766 | Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes | 1966-09 | With Wes Montgomery |
| 1968 | Verve | V6-8770 | The Boss | 1968 | Live |
| 1970 | Verve | V6-8794 | Groove Drops | 1968-11 | |
| 1971 | Verve | V6-8800 | In a Plain Brown Wrapper | 1971-07? | |
| 1972 | Verve | V6-8806 | Root Down | 1972-02 | Live |
| 1972 | Verve | V6-8809 | Bluesmith | 1972-09 | |
| 1973 | Verve | V6S-8832 | Portuguese Soul | 1973-02 | |
| 1995 | Verve | 314 527 631-2 | Damn! | 1995-01 | |
| 1996 | Verve | 314 527 632-2 | Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams | 1995-01 | |
| 2001 | Verve/Blue Thumb | VERF-01064-2 | Dot Com Blues | 2000-02, 2000–03, 2000–04, 2000-06 | |

#### Others

| Year released | Label | Title | Recording date | Notes |
| 1966 | Metro | Live in Concert | 1965-05 | Live |
| 1966 | Pickwick | Swings Along with Stranger in Paradise | 1966? | |
| 1970 | MGM | I'm Gon' Git Myself Together | 1970-02 | |
| 1970 | MGM | The Other Side of Jimmy Smith | 1970-08 | |
| 1972 | Cobblestone/Atlantic | The Jimmy Smith Jam | 1972-07 | Live. Newport In New York '72 series Vol.5. |
| 1974 | MGM/Pride | Black Smith | 1974 | |
| 1974 | Mojo | Paid in Full | 1974 | |
| 1974 | Isradisc | Live In Israel | 1974-10? | Live. Israel only release. |
| 1975 | Mojo | Jimmy Smith '75 | 1974-10, additional | partially live in Israel |
| 1977 | Mercury | Sit on It! | 1976-12 | |
| 1977 | Mercury | It's Necessary | 1977-07 | Live |
| 1978 | Mercury | Unfinished Business | 1978-01 | |
| 1979 | Polydor | Jimmy Smith Plays For The People | 1978-12 | South Africa only release |
| 1980 | Wersi | The Cat Strikes Again | 1980-07 | |
| 1981 | Mojo | Second Coming | 1981 | |
| 1982 | Elektra/Musician | Off the Top | 1982-06 | |
| 1983 | Elektra/Musician | Keep On Comin' | 1983-09 | Live |
| 1989 | Milestone | Prime Time | 1989-08 | |
| 1991 | Milestone | Fourmost with Stanley Turrentine, Kenny Burrell, Grady Tate | 1990-11 | Live |
| 1993 | Milestone | Sum Serious Blues | 1993-01 | |
| 1996 | Milestone | All the Way Live with Eddie Harris | 1981-08 | Live |
| 2001 | Milestone | Fourmost Return | 1990-11 | Liive |
| 2002 | West Wind | Daybreak also released as The Cat Swings Again (Jazz Hour, 2003), Black Cat (Castle Pie, 2004) | 1999-10, 2001-04 | Partially live (1999-10) |

### Compilations

* The Best of Jimmy Smith (V-8721) (Verve, 1967)
* The Fantastic Jimmy Smith (Upfront, 1969) – rec. 1956–1966
* The History of Jimmy Smith (2V6S-8814) (Verve, 1972)[2LP]
* The Best of Jimmy Smith – The Blue Note Years (Blue Note, 1988)
* Walk on the Wild Side – Best of the Verve Years (Verve, 1995)[2CD]
* The Definitive Jimmy Smith (Blue Note, 2002)
* Milestone Profiles (Milestone, 2006)
* Definitive Collection (Verve, 2008)

### As sideman
#### With King Curtis

* Get Ready (Atco, 1970)
* Everybody's Talkin (Atco, 1972)

#### With Joey DeFrancesco

* Incredible! (Concord Jazz, 2000)
* Legacy (Concord Jazz, 2005)

#### With Quincy Jones

* Smackwater Jack (A&M, 1971)
* The Original Jam Sessions 1969 with Bill Cosby (Concord Jazz, 2004) – rec. 1969

#### With others

* George Benson, George Benson (Verve, 1987)
* Jean-Michel Bernard, Cash (Naive, 2008)
* Dee Dee Bridgewater, Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Verve, 1995) – rec. 1994
* Kenny Burrell, Ellington Is Forever (Fantasy, 1975)
* Cornell Dupree, Shadow Dancing (Versatile, 1978)
* Stu Gardner, The Italian Heist (Super Disco Edits, 2019)
* Jon Hendricks, Love (Muse, 1982)
* James Ingram, It's Your Night (Qwest/Warner Bros., 1983)
* Michael Jackson, Bad (Epic, 1987)
* Toshihiko Kankawa, Quarter Run (Paddlewheel, 1984)
* Robbie Krieger, Robbie Krieger & Friends (Blue Note, 1977)
* Yoshiaki Miyanoue, Touch of Love (Vap, 1981)
* Frank Sinatra, L.A. Is My Lady (Qwest/WB, 1984)
* Candi Staton, Stand Up and Be a Witness (Beracah, 1989)
* Stanley Turrentine, Straight Ahead (Blue Note, 1985) – rec. 1984
* Lenny White, Venusian Summer (Nemperor, 1975)
* V.A., Newport in New York '72 (The Jam Sessions, Vol. 4) (Cobblestone, 1972)
* V.A., One Night with Blue Note, Volume 3 (Blue Note, 1985)