Back At The Chicken Shack

boring

Ok

The album stretches out for far too long considering how few track are actually on it. For an instrumental jazzy blues album, I suppose it was technically good. I enjoyed the sound of the electric organ, the overall vibe was very cool/relaxed however there wasn’t much variation in tempo or harmonics throughout the tracks and made them feel samey, I think I would have enjoyed it much more with some sharper contrasts. Taken individually the tracks work well and listening to and one song randomly is enjoyable.

Album de jazz interesante pero pretty background. No se si es algo que escucharía a merced. De todas formas tiene buenos solos de saxo y ese organo exquisito. Simplemente es todo muy largo y parece improvisado. All quite the same... Likes: When i grow too old to dream -

Ah não cara , me recuso a escutar outro álbum instrumental de jazz. É isso, não escutei

i feel bad to give it such a low rating, but it's not my style. it's more of a background music album, which is not what i'm looking for

Organista Jazz. Para tener de fondo.

syn piano? Anyway, no likey

1001 albums you must hear before you die - hopefully only once...

Average jazz

jazzy dvd menu music

Bland. I like instrumental albums, but this did not explore much. best tunes: minor chant

stop giving us bullshit jazz pls

Not for me.

Den Titel hatte ich mal gehört, konnte mir aber nichts weiter drunter vorstellen bzw damit verbinden. Jetzt kann ich. Ein reines Instrumentalalbum. Ich warte irgendwie die ganze Zeit darauf, dass die knackigen Metalparts oder der Gesang von Helge Schneider einsetzen. Kommt nix. Eine Empfehlung an musikanspruchsvolle Aufzugbesitzer.

Album musical sans paroles j'ai a peine ecouté

i didn't listened it

This was awful

Not my taste.

Sounds like a selection of theme tunes to 70s sitcoms or game shows. Do people listen to this for pleasure?

not for me thanks

It was ok instrumental music

Inessential jazz noodling

1*

Enhän minä jaksa jazzia kuunnella

Tyvärr bara jättetråkigt.

Musical and quite honestly not my favorite. Did not finish album couldn’t

Not my šálek kavy Nudný blues/jazz 0/10

I like jazz! Really! But I could not get into this at all. Just 10 minute songs noodling around on the organ, did not grab me in any way.

Jimmy Smith is an amazing musician, I'm just not that into instrumental jazz. Best song: Back At The Chicken Shack

Always happy to be exposed to new music. But listening to this I was left wanting more. Don’t think I heard a sax until the last song. This will not make my playlist.

Sorry jazz, it's just not me - music should take you places, and this doesn't.

First listen

More jazz tedium

m dio mucha paja escuchar esto literal dure 2 minutos

Yuck

Not a jazz fan, so this didn't talk to me much.

Nah, wasn’t in the mood for it

1/5

I've not been a fan of any of the jazz-orientated albums presented to me so far, long songs have to be something pretty special to hold my interest, saxophone does my tits in, and derivative 12-bar stuff bores me to death. But, you can't beat a bit of Hammond action - at the very least, I can see me sticking this on as a bit of background music. Still only one star, but it's more accessible than some of the other stuff from this genre I've heard so far. Respect to the Incredible Jimmy Smith.

Couldn't finish it - jazz just ain't my thing.

I always feel a bit uncomfortable giving low ratings to stuff that is just not for me but I think it's a 1 realistically - I didn't dislike it and it was fine to have on but equally, got nothing from it and was looking forward to it being done so I could listen to something else

Nice but elevator music

For fucks sake. This sucked. I will not be going back to the chicken shack.

Nope

Ehh jazzy and brassy mainly not my style

Jazz isn’t for me, and this album confirms that.

Stay in the chicken shack Jimbo

Etwas Saxofon, etwas Botempi Orgel und ganz viel Freestyle Jazz. Ich finde ein Hühnerstall klingt besser.

dead

Allez, on ouvre une nouvelle page de ce foutu carnet de bord. Qu'est-ce que le grand livre sacré des "1001 Albums" nous réserve aujourd'hui ? Ah, Jimmy Smith. "Back At The Chicken Shack". Une pochette que j'ai dû voir dans les bacs de la boutique, généralement classée dans la section "Jazz / Soul". Le genre de disque que les vrais connaisseurs, les barbus en col roulé qui sentent le tabac froid, te recommandent avec un clin d'oeil entendu en te disant : "Ça, mon petit, c'est la base." La base de quoi, au juste ? La base de la sieste, peut-être. Je dois être honnête avec vous, et surtout avec le concept de ce blog. Je ne suis pas là pour vous réciter la messe ou pour m'extasier sur commande. Je suis là pour écouter et pour dire ce que j'en pense, avec mes oreilles de disquaire à la retraite qui en ont entendu d'autres. Et pour cet album-ci, mon verdict est tombé, lapidaire : Bordel de merde, qu'est-ce que c'est chiant. Pardon, il faut que je développe. On parle quand même de Jimmy Smith, le type qui a quasiment inventé le soul jazz, le pape de l'orgue Hammond B3. Un virtuose, un pionnier. Sur le papier, tout est là. On a Stanley Turrentine au sax, Kenny Burrell à la guitare... C'est pas une équipe de pieds nickelés, on est d'accord. C'est du lourd, du solide. Le genre de casting qui te fait saliver d'avance. Tu t'attends à un truc qui suinte le blues, qui transpire la soul, qui te prend aux tripes et te fait taper du pied sans même que tu t'en rendes compte. Et à la place, t'as quoi ? De la musique d'ambiance. De la musique d'ambiance de luxe, certes, mais de la musique d'ambiance quand même. C'est le disque parfait à mettre pendant un cocktail dînatoire où tu veux avoir l'air cool et cultivé sans pour autant que la musique ne vienne perturber la conversation sur le dernier film d'auteur polonais. C'est la bande-son idéale pour un film de Tarantino, juste avant que le dialogue ne dérape et que tout le monde se flingue. C'est propre, c'est carré, c'est techniquement irréprochable. Et c'est précisément ça le problème. Il n'y a aucune putain d'aspérité. Pas un seul grain de sable dans la mécanique parfaitement huilée. Jimmy Smith déroule ses gammes avec une facilité déconcertante, Turrentine souffle dans son sax comme s'il lisait le journal, et Burrell... eh bien, Burrell fait du Burrell, c'est-à-dire que c'est impeccable et totalement dépourvu de la moindre surprise. Tout est "cool", dans le sens le plus littéral et le plus réfrigérant du terme. Le "groove" est là, mais c'est un groove de métronome, un groove qui ne décolle jamais vraiment, qui ne prend jamais le risque de déraper. C'est un groove de salon, pas un groove de "Chicken Shack". Le "Chicken Shack", le bouge à poulet frit, ça évoque la sueur, la graisse, la chaleur, un truc un peu crade et viscéral. J'ai rien entendu de tout ça. J'ai entendu des musiciens de studio ultra-compétents qui font leur job. Bien, très bien même. Mais sans l'étincelle, sans le danger. On est en 1960. Le rock'n'roll a déjà tout pété. Le blues est en train de s'électrifier de manière sale et méchante à Chicago. Et à La Nouvelle-Orléans, ça sent le soufre. Et là, on me sert un plat soigné, bien présenté, mais qui manque cruellement de piment. Je ne vais pas vous mentir, j'ai failli piquer un somme. À plusieurs reprises. Le morceau-titre, "Back At The Chicken Shack", est sympa, il installe une ambiance. Mais après ? On reste dans cette ambiance. Pendant 40 minutes. C'est une longue autoroute toute droite, bien asphaltée, sans un seul virage pour te réveiller. Alors oui, je comprends pourquoi c'est dans la liste. C'est un jalon. C'est représentatif d'un style, le soul jazz, qui a eu son heure de gloire et a influencé des tonnes de musiciens. C'est une pièce de musée. Mais est-ce que ça me procure la moindre émotion ? Est-ce que ça me donne envie de me resservir ? Absolument pas. C'est le genre de disque que je respecte, mais que je n'écouterai probablement plus jamais de ma vie, sauf si je décide d'ouvrir un bar à cocktails pour hipsters. Le projet "1001 Albums" n'est pas fait que de coups de coeur. Il est aussi fait de ça : des classiques incontournables qui te passent à dix mille pieds au-dessus de la tête. Des disques qui te font te demander si le problème vient de toi. Suis-je devenu insensible ? Mon âme de vieux disquaire est-elle devenue sourde au soul jazz ? Ou est-ce que, tout simplement, ce disque est juste... surcoté ? Je penche pour la deuxième option. C'est un disque à écouter, pour la culture. Une fois. Et après, on passe à autre chose, si possible un truc avec un peu plus de sang et de couilles. La note : 1 sur 5 pour la posterité

eh

Couldn't get through the whole album. Boring and monotonous Hammond organ recital. I like jazz, this is shit.

Love me some instrumental tunes, but this was too much sax? Every song seemed the same, even after a few listens. Listen again:no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: none

Not my genre

Back at the chicken shack is not funky enough to make me not hate the rest of the album. 10 min boring jazz songs is a tough listen

Shite

Without wanting to sound like a philistine, I found this really boring. I just don't dig it.

oooo i was so bored

So bored by this album. Jimmys improv style on the organ makes this one drawn out jazz jam sesh. How do they play these songs live the same each time? Just sounds like slapping a keyboard and honking a sax for 45 mins. Where's John Zorn when you need him? 1.0

3 minutes of this was about all I needed. 40 minutes just made me completely tune out. I don't feel like there was any reason I needed to hear this album before I die. Vote to remove from the list. 1.11 stars

No

non mi piace il jazz, canzoni troppo lunghe e monotone

I listened to this while running a 5k and it somehow made the run more boring. AND it made me need the toilet

Not for me

Ugh

Found it very boring, at best it's background music. Tracks are far to long and just end up repeating themselves. Maybe adding some lyrics to it might of saved it/ made it better I will not be going back to the chicken shack, but will still vist a fried chicken shop after beers. The best part of this album was when it ended

Prick album

Au premier abord sympathique, très vite pénible tellement tout cela s’étire sur la longueur. 45 minutes d’ennui un peu crispé

One song you've heard but don't care for. The rest is boring as well.

Vaeltelee leikkisästi sillä tavalla, että hei, tämähän voisi olla nimeltään vaikka Back At The Chicken Shack.

Da isch glaub s erste mal dasi öppis vo dere Website so garnid gfühlt han. Es het sich eifach bland ahgfühlt und mega boring. Ich han wie nid meh dezue zum sege.

ew

Not into this one. Feels like something I would have skipped over on Sesame Street if I had the chance back then.

Not what I’m looking for

Ikke vokal

Clearly an accomplished, easy on the ear, and concise album. I have no real frame of reference for where this sits in the history of jazz. I have listened sporadically to jazz throughout my life and this felt quite middle of the road, tame, not especially interesting. I am likely entirely wrong about that, but that is why my rating will be low. Sorry Jimmy, it's not you, it's me.

what the fuck is this garbage

Blues

Not for me.

Infumable

Felt like I was trapped in a lift. Claustrophobic 2/10

Holy fuck I hated almost all of this. I strained to enjoy segments but they were short lived. The whole album sounds like an empty stage while you talk to someone else. It sound like exeunt. The organ is dated and persistent like a pervert uncle pawing at your waist. The tootling is unstructured and unamusing. A lot of mind over matter. Utterly emotionless jazz gestures that faintly irritate the skin. Not sla bit of me.

gotta' love listening to the same thing for 45 minutes

Too jazzy.

Big meh.

It is getting hard to remember if an album has baffled me as to why it is on this list yet, but this one certainly makes me feel that way. I mean, it has a pretty decent average global rating, and musically it is inoffensive at worst, but why is this here? Like, this genuinely makes me upset listening to it, because it is either the type of music I'd hear at a nice-ish restaurant trying to sound intellectual, or the background music of a baseball documentary, depending on which instrument has the focus, and even though it is only four songs, it gets old FAST. I mean, wouldn't have one song sealed the deal as to what my thoughts would be? Again, this is extremely technically competent, but I can't seriously be in the minority for thinking that it is insane that this made the cut over so many other iconic albums? Just upsetting, and drags it way down. I'm sure the dog on the front had nothing to do with it, though. He's a good boy.

Can’t say I liked this one. I respect it tho. That’s gotta count for something.

prima niet mijn smaak

not on spotify :/ i wish i could visit the chicken shack. i will not be back

Wow I didn’t like this. Something very emotionally taxing about any song over 6 min long. I’m just not a big jazz fan to boot

Sounds like a soundtrack to a 1960s cartoon

1/5

Just put it down to something I don’t get, and never will.

Oh, it's like slipping back into old comfy PJs before sliding into a bed with freshly washed sheets. The B3 is soothing and warm and the walking blues lines are comforting and easy to hear. The light jazz treatment within the blues framework is just about as classic as organ music gets for this New Orleans boy. Jimmy is clearly one of the great organ players and was instrumental in popularizing the B3, so there's a lot of deserved flowers to give there. However, I'm not sure how much 1-4-5 blues I can take without some real serious chops to keep me going, and that's not really here. Don't get me wrong, this music is great to have on while you work or clean or cook, but I'm not spinning this record to do active listening or learning. The band is good, but not great. The groove is deep, but none of these solos are going down in history as "must listen." The sax solos are not particularly special, the guitar is lacking (especially with access to so many of the wonderful Motown players around at this time... David T Walker, etc. I would've liked to see some more heat), and even the organ play is not particularly difficult or deep. The band sounds good. The mix is good, I love the buttery tones of the B3, and the drums are clean and bright, but they're a long shot from Herbie's Headhunters or The Meters or Dr. John, all of which I'd prefer to this. Ultimately there's some amazing organ music that I think is perhaps more deserving of a place on this list, so here's a couple if you're interested: * Dr. Lonnie Smith - Finger Lickin' Good (1967), Mama Waller (1971) * Joey DeFrancesco - Relentless (1993) * Papa Grows Funk - Live at the Leaf (2006) * Jon Lord - Sarabande (1976)

I'm not a jazz guy, so it just sounds like really nice elevator music

Not really poppin for a place called the chicken shack

Not one for me. Mercifully a short album.

Overall 2/10

I can't listen to jazz. I don't understand it. It's the musical equivalent of a foreign language to me. I'm sure the saxophonist is spitting straight facts, but it just sounds like random annoying dooting to me.

Er zal vast een markt voor zijn en hoewel ik van alle markten probeer te zijn, hoor ik hier overduidelijk niet thuis.

Zonder zang vind ik dit toch al gauw muzak

Godsamme dit voelt al een nachtmerrie waarin ik in een lift sta waar maar maar geen einde aan komt, terwijl deze muziek gedraaid wordt.... Laat me eruit!

??? What? 0 for 0 music in album

What can I say? I tried, but it is just not my thing. I once went to a jazz club in Budapest (Beth will remember this!) and thought maybe it was a turning point for me on my musical pathway, but it was just a cul-de-sac…

Didn’t like

1.5

I did not care for this album. Very repetitive.

3/10

Not for me sorry...

Some more jazz, wouldn’t listen again

good sound but jazz sounds like background music personally, not very interesting couldn't finish

Not my cup of tea

s

Yeah I’m sorry I’m so bored I want to snap my neck. I’m done with this.

meh

Surprised I like this. Much more on the Jazz spectrum than I usually like.