Let's Stay Together

Jimmy Smith · 1972 · Soul d'Al Green repris à l'orgue

Context

Live album recorded in 1972 in Los Angeles with a younger band, marked by funk and rock; it reached number 24 on Billboard's jazz chart. Smith covers "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green, Al Jackson Jr. and Willie Mitchell.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk: Modal, Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop, Free jazz, Brazilian instrumental music, Indo-jazz, Modern big bands, Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais).

By the same artist

• Root Down (And Get It) (1972)
• Sagg Shootin' His Arrow (1972)
• Slow Down Sagg (1972)
• Back at the Chicken Shack (1960)
• When I Grow Too Old to Dream (1960)
• Minor Chant (1960)

Sources

• EN: Root Down (album)

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