Artist: Tab Smith
Album: Jump Time
Genre: Jump Blues, Swing
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 1991
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
- Because of You (3:15)
- Slow Motion (2:53)
- Dee Jay Special (2:58)
- Sin (3:14)
- Under a Blanket of Blue (3:22)
- How Can You Say We're Thru (2:56)
- Wig Song (2:51)
- Hands Across the Table (2:30)
- One Man Dip (2:54)
- Down Beat (2:59)
- Brown Baby (3:06)
- Knotty-Headed Women (2:31)
- Boogie Joogie (2:52)
- Can't We Take a Chance (2:46)
- All My Life (3:10)
- Jump Time (2:33)
- This Love of Mine (3:26)
- Ain't Got Nobody (2:53)
- Love Is a Wonderful Thing (3:00)
- Nursery Rhyme Jump (2:27)
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- Personnel:
- Tab Smith - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, vocals (#6,9,11)
- Sonny Cohn - trumpet
- Leon Washington - tenor saxophone
- Lavern Dillon, Teddy Brannon - piano
- Wilfred Middlebrooks - bass
- Walter Johnson - drums
- Louis Blackwell - vocals (#12,18)
Altoist Tab Smith, who first gained recognition with Count Basie's orchestra in the mid-'40s, became an unexpected R&B star in the early '50s, thanks in large part to his hit version of "Because of You." Between 1951-1957, Smith recorded 90 songs for the United Record Company, of which only 48 were issued. Delmark, in their CD reissue series, came out with all of the music in chronological order. This first release has the initial 20 (including the hit), and Tab Smith sounds fine on the sweet ballads, blues, and concise jump tunes. The backup crew includes trumpeter Sonny Cohn, tenor Leon Washington, and either Lavern Dillon or Teddy Brannon on piano.
Review by Scott Yanow