Jimmy Smith / Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ? (US, Verve Records, V/DJ-3) <1964>

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Jimmy Smith / Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ? (US, Verve Records, V/DJ-3) <1964>
Recorded in New York on Jan. 20, 21 & 27, 1964.

(SIDE A) VDJ-3 SIDe 1
(SIDE B) VDJ-3 SIDe 2

Label states 'Designed for programming. Special disc jockey copy not for sale.
Same sleeve as V-8583 (hence the sleeve being used in the images)

[Wikipedia]

AllMusic reviewer Michael G. Nastos, only gave the album 2½ stars stating that:

The music tends to be corny and overly dramatic, based in soul-jazz and boogaloo; it's dated even for this time period (1964) and a bit bland... A curiosity in his discography, for some an "experiment" that never worked, and for others an interesting aside, one wonders what Smith really thought of this project after the fact, considering his far greater works.

The album was however, Smith's third highest charting album, spending 31 weeks and charting as high as number 16 on the US Billboard 200 charts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFItGF2aHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezT3LoLXMqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG0r803mKPI

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