Jimmy Smith

    Jimmy Smith

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    December 8, 1925
    Died February 8, 2005 (79 years old)
    Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA

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    James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music. In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that America bestows upon jazz musicians. James Oscar Smith was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania northwest of Philadelphia. He joined his father doing a song-and-dance routine in clubs at the age of six...

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