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By Robert Fontenot, About.com Guide to Oldies Music since 2002

Oldies News: Jimmy Smith, R.I.P.

Thursday February 10, 2005
Jimmy Smith, a pioneer of the Hammond B-3 organ who introduced the instrument into jazz, creating a hybrid known as "soul jazz," has died at the age of 79.

Read more here: BBC: Award-winning organist Smith dies

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