Home Cookin' (album)

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Home Cookin'
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Studio album by
Jimmy Smith
ReleasedApril 1961
RecordedJuly 15, 1958, May 24 & June 16, 1959
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz blues
Length39:37original LP
70:10 CD reissue
Label Blue Note
BST 84050
Producer Alfred Lion
Jimmy Smith chronology
Crazy! Baby
(1960)		Home Cookin'
(1961)		 Midnight Special
(1961)
Singles from Home Cookin
  1. "See See Rider"
    Released: April 1960

Home Cookin' is an album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith of performances recorded in 1958 and 1959 and released on the Blue Note label. [1] The album was rereleased on CD with five bonus tracks.

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The AllMusic review by Lindsay Planer states: "The Hammond organ mastery of Jimmy Smith is arguably nowhere as profound as on this collection... Jimmy Smith's voluminous catalog is remarkably solid throughout and Home Cookin' is a recommended starting place for burgeoning enthusiasts as well as a substantial entry for the initiated". [2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz placed this album by Smith among those it regarded as "formulaic"; but highlighted the presence of Burrell and concluded that it was "A solid one". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy Smith, except as indicated
  1. "See See Rider" (Ma Rainey) – 6:35
  2. "Sugar Hill" (Kenny Burrell) – 5:19
  3. "I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles, Renald Richard) – 3:55
  4. "Messin' Around" – 5:55
  5. "Gracie" – 5:54
  6. "Come on Baby" (Burrell) – 6:50
  7. "Motorin' Along" (Jimmy McGriff) – 5:09

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

  2. "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) – 4:19
  3. "Apostrophe" (Percy France) – 6:35
  4. "Groanin'" (Jack McDuff) – 8:10
  5. "Motorin' Along" [alternate take] (McGriff) – 5:02
  6. "Since I Fell for You" [alternate take] (Johnson) – 6:27

Recorded on July 15, 1958 (tracks 7, 8, 11, 12), May 24, 1959 (tracks 3, 10) and June 16, 1959 (tracks 1, 2, 4–6 & 9).

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References

  1. ↑ "Blue Note Records Catalog: 4000 series". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  2. 1 2 Planer, L. Allmusic Review accessed November 25, 2010
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1312. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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