My favorite Jimmy Smith albums are Unfinished Business and Groove Drops 3+1.
As far as Rolling Stone goes, I don\'t get too fired up over these lists. They\'re a great gimmic for selling magazines, not some "official" list that a lot of people think it is. Fame always wins out over musicianship too, because famous musicians, again, sell magazines, therefore Rolling Stone likes them better. As long as you\'ve got some huge list and a "special issue" ribbon on the cover, you\'re gonna sell more mags, so I don\'t put any stock in the lists.
Actually, what I do get out of them though, is discovering some good music lost in the middle of the lists. Like with the 500 best albums list a few months ago, I just used #300-500 as a guide to check out some groups I had never really considered before. That worked well.