Melanie Charles: Y’all Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women Format:1CD Jimmy Smith was a self-taught

Jimmy Smith was a self-taught pianist who abandoned the instrument in 1954 in favour of the Hammond B3 organ

East of the Sun (& West of the Moon)

Presented in a UHQ-CD jewel case with obi-strip and the original sleeve notes

Root Down was Hammond B-3 jazz legend Jimmy Smith's 1972 live album for Verve

Highlights include soulful covers of Ray Charles’ “What Could I Do Without You

Melanie Charles: Y’all Don’t (Really) Care About Black Women Format:1CD Jimmy Smith was a self-taughtImpulse!, 2021 As a Verve Remixed project, with Yall Dont (Really) Care About Black Women, Melanie Charles set out to take this group of songs and breathe new energy into them. Melanie was immediately drawn to the rapturous voices of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn who inspired her to record arrangements of God Bless the Child and Detour Ahead. Yall Dont (Really) Care About Black Women is a love letter to the unheralded labor of black women. Melanie