Jimmy Smith – It's Necessary - Live From Jimmy Smith's Supper Club

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Image	,	–			In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory	Version Details	Data Quality
	It's Necessary LP, Stereo	Mercury – 6338 836	Netherlands	1977	Netherlands — 1977	New Submission
	It's Necessary LP, Album	Mercury – SRM-1-1189	US	1977	US — 1977	Recently Edited
	It's Necessary LP, Album	Mercury – 6338 836	Italy	1977	Italy — 1977	Recently Edited
	It's Necessary (Recorded Live At Jimmy Smith's Supper Club) LP, Album, Terre Haute	Mercury – SRM-1-1189	US	1977	US — 1977	Recently Edited
	It's Necessary (Recorded Live At Jimmy Smith's Supper Club) LP, Album	Mercury – SRM-1-1189	US	1977	US — 1977
	It's Necessary - Live From Jimmy Smith's Supper Club LP, Album, Stereo, CP, Pitman Press	Mercury – SRM-1-1189	US	1977	US — 1977	Recently Edited
	It's Necessary - Live From Jimmy Smith's Supper Club LP, Album, Test Pressing, Stereo	Mercury – SRM-1-1189	US	1977	US — 1977	New Submission
	It's Necessary - Live From Jimmy Smith's Supper Club LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute	Mercury – SRM-1-1189	US	1977	US — 1977	Recently Edited
	It's Necessary (Recorded Live At Jimmy Smith's Supper Club) LP, Album	PGP RTB – LP 4369, PGP RTB – LP - 4369, Mercury – 6338 836	Yugoslavia	1978	Yugoslavia — 1978	New Submission
	It's Necessary LP, Album	Mercury – RJ-7344	Japan	1978	Japan — 1978	Recently Edited
	It's Necessary - Live From Jimmy Smith's Supper Club LP, Album	Mercury – STAR 706	South Africa	1980	South Africa — 1980	Recently Edited

McHomie Dec 12, 2023
referencing It's Necessary (Recorded Live At Jimmy Smith's Supper Club) (LP, Album, Terre Haute) SRM-1-1189
Along with BLUESMITH and ROOT DOWN, this is one of Jimmy Smith's better albums from the 1970's, a live date recorded in 1977 at his Los Angeles restaurant. Harold Land and Blue Mitchell feature on horns, and Smith sounds vital and inspired throughout. His two studio albums for Mercury were slick and overly commercial, but this is refreshingly loose, feeling like a throwback to his Blue Note jams twenty years prior, particularly on the last track, "Say It Again, Jim". This pressing sounds fine, the rhythm section is well recorded, Smith's organ jumps out at you, and the soundstage is clear and well defined. My copy plays nice and clean with occasional light surface noise.