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Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Articles Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. My Profile. Advanced Search. Review by Matt Collar. Track Listing. Son of Ice Bag. Hugh Masekela. The Call of the Wild. Lonnie Smith. Three Blind Mice. Genre Jazz. Son of Ice Bag Hugh Masekela. The Call of the Wild Dr. One day the teenager confided to Kubera that he was sure he could support himself from music if he had an instrument of his own.

Kubera showed him a new Hammond B3 organ at the back of the shop, and told him that if he could shift the kilo behemoth to some place else, he could keep it.

Smith did just that, taught himself a style fusing church-organ traditions and the jazz of the Hammond pioneers, and within a year was playing professionally at a Buffalo jazz and rhythm-and-blues haunt, the Pine Grill. Among the stars who headlined there were the organist McDuff, the saxophonist Lou Donaldson, and Benson, then a brilliant improvising instrumentalist before his soul-vocals stardom emerged.

After parting with Blue Note in , Smith recorded for smaller labels, applying his infectious sound, in ensembles from trios to big bands, to the music of the Beatles, the Stylistics, the Eurythmics and other rock and soul stars. He regularly withdrew from music in the 80s, but returned to recording in with an impressive jazz tribute to John Coltrane Afro Blue, featuring the guitarist John Abercrombie , and the same group celebrated the music of Jimi Hendrix on two albums, released in and As he entered his 60s, Smith became a popular club draw again, now often splicing new original material with more traditionally jazz-rooted standard tunes, sometimes partnering Donaldson, and collaborating with imaginative younger guitarists including the New Yorkers Peter Bernstein and Jonathan Kreisberg.

That year, on his 75th birthday engagement at the Jazz Standard, in New York, Smith recorded most of his final album, Breathe, with a classy group including Kreisberg, Olatuja and the saxophonist John Ellis.

Another daughter, Netta, died in