Root Down (live album) by Jimmy Smith

Root Down by Jimmy Smith
(Live album)
Year: 1972
Overall rank: 14,106th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 18 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1972 (198th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,916th)
Award Best albums of all time (14,106th)
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Jimmy Smith bestography

Root Down is ranked 3rd best out of 45 albums by Jimmy Smith on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Jimmy Smith is Back At The Chicken Shack which is ranked number 4178 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 342.

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75/100 (from 18 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.8.

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Some of these incredible live jazz albums sound like they were recorded in a bar with 50 people who sound they just chanced upon the happening whilst out drinking.
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