The spirit of gospel and soul ripened nicely on the tree of jazz with the artistry of Bobby Timmons. The sound of his music lending a deeply resonating emotion filled feeling. A Philadelphia native Timmons brought an earlier Philly sound to the music with an infectious groove and easily accessible almost R&B flavoring.
His life was cut very short, his compositions became hits for superstar jazz artists like Art Blakey and Cannonball Adderley. His short flash of influence introduced the sound of soul jazz to the genre. Gospel roots coming from an upbringing in a religious family stayed with his creativity throughout his just over a dozen years of a career. The music brings you in close to the ground for an earthy very organic and human voice and expression of the swirling world around us all. The legacy is a deep humanizing and church’ifying of jazz.
Music influenced equally by Faith and feel, a heady ripening of gospel and soul on the tree of jazz.