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Review title: Where's the Fire? Where's the Point?
Product review: Disappointing effort by Oliver Nelson and Jimmy Smith to make this music come out fresh in a jazz environment. When Jimmy isn't playing and it's just the big band, the bow to the Prokofiev score is perfunctory and uninspired. With Jimmy, things get better, but too often he lapses into his standard riffs and signature hold-the-high-note gee-wizardry. It's Jimmy in his "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff" mode, minus anything new to say.It's a tough business, turning the classics into pop or jazz. A few years back Carlos Santana did a cool thing with an unpromising theme from the Brahms Third Symphony. Who knows when it will work? For it surely will, here and there. But it didn't on this Jimmy Smith outing. And at under 33 minutes of music, do you really want to pop for it?
