Comfort jazz
“Chicken & Dumplin’s” Bobby Timmons Prestige Records Bobby Timmons (p, vib) Lee Otis Bass III (b) Billy Saunders (d) Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 12, 1965
Chicken And Dumplin’s / The Telephone Song / Ray’s Idea / A Sunday Kind Of Love / The Return Of Genghis Khan
Bobby played his soulful gospel-tinged jazz piano on many of the greatest jazz albums of the late 1950’s and early 60’s – including classics with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958-1961), Cannonball Adderley, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker and Kenny Dorham (with whom he made his recording debut in 1956). He composed the standards “Moanin'”, “Dat Dere”, and “This Here”
Bobby died In March 1974 from cirrhosis at the age of 38, in New York.
February 4th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Bobby Timmons embodied soul-jazz. A giant, whose playing was as tasty as the album’s title.