Track Listing

1. Norleans
2. Too Damn Hot
3. Back Track
4. The Whip
5. Silver Serenade
6. Track 9
7. One Cylinder
8. Someday My Prince Will Come
9. Your Mama's Got A Complex
10. Evil Turn

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133606 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-12
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Organist Smith's career stretches back to the 1960s heyday of soul jazz, and over the years he's played with an impressive range of artists from jazz leaders (George Benson, Lou Donaldson) to pillars of soul and pop (including Etta James and Gladys Knight). Too Damn Hot! finds his robust Hammond B-3 moving easily from funk (the saucy "Back Track") to fusionist updates ("Track 9"), balladry ("Silver Serenade"), and plenty of riveting organ-combo forays (such as "The Whip"). Smith's roots naturally and confidently mix a healthy range of music, all connected and empowered by his committed playing, full of both invention and tradition. --David Greenberger

Customer Reviews

Jimihendrixing Hammond-bro
Oh boy, This Doctor is no Sh-t. This doctor knows how to play his Hammond-bro, and sure knows how to build up a solo too. Buikding up a solo? He is Jimihendrixing his organ. This doctor heals all your wounds, this doctor will get ya thru another millenium.
Why not start your day with this wunderfull album? Lustful, dirty, its jazz, its swinging, please leslie!, eager, ready, consumptious, SOULful.... Play it, feel it, enjoy, this is how joy musically sounds, be happy. Get it, and for one thing: go see this one and only Motherf-cker alive. He will love it, and you love it and wont be the same afterwards.
This is jazz music straight from the heart, and even your mother will confess: our Doctor speaks an international tongue of jazz and soul music staight from the heart.
Enjoy.

Weak...Especially PB on the Guitar
Wow...I thought this album was going to be "Too Damn Hot"...it is "So Damn Not" that it's frightening.

The tunes are weak, the Doctor's playing is OKAY but not inspired and Bernstein's guitar playing is beyond lame. I've seen Bernstein at a club uptown and he was decent at best (better comping, not a great soloist) but this album doesn't display the best of either of these wonderful musicians' capabilities.

B3 MASTER
This record is the good Dr.'s best yet. Phenominal musicianship on the part of all members. Groovy as heck. I don't understand why this hasn't sold a million copies. Go see him live. He is unreal. Enough said.