Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams is a 1996 album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith. The album was Smith's penultimate album, and his last recording for five years.

On the Billboard Top Jazz Album charts Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams peaked at number 22.

Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album three stars and wrote that "Despite the constant changing of instrumentation, the results (although pleasant) are uneventful and somewhat predictable. Good for late-night background music rather than for close listening."

Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams

Track listing

"Stolen Moments" (Oliver Nelson) - 7:00

"You Better Go Now" (Robert Graham, Bickley S. Reichmer) - 5:15

"Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) - 8:00

"Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 4:10 "Slow Freight" (Lupin Fein, Irving Mills, Buck Ram) - 5:52 "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) - 6:25 "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 7:00 "Li'l Darlin'" (Neal Hefti) - 6:15 "What a Wonderful World" (Bob Thiele, George David Weiss) - 4:25

Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams

Personnel

Musicians

Jimmy Smith – organ, arranger

Roy Hargrove – flugelhorn, trumpet

Nicholas Payton – trumpet

Mark Whitfield – guitar

Christian McBride – double bass

Damon Krukowski – drums, percussion

Gregory Hutchinson – drums

Production

Richard Seidel – liner notes, producer

Allan Tucker – mastering

Chris Albert – mixing assistant

Jimmy Katz – photography

James Minchin

Don Sickler – producer

Camille Tominaro – production coordinator

Jim Anderson - engineer, mixing

Giulio Turturro – art direction, design

Scott Austin – assistant engineer

References

1996 albums

Jimmy Smith (musician) albums

Verve Records albums