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James Oscar Smith was an American jazz musician best known for bringing the Hammond B-3 organ to prominence and bridging jazz with 1960s soul music. His influential sound left a lasting mark on the genre, earning him the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 2005, the highest honor for jazz artists in the United States.