Open House!

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Open House!
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Studio album by Johnny "Hammond" Smith
Released 1963
Recorded 1963
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Riverside
RLP 482
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Johnny "Hammond" Smith chronology
Mr. Wonderful
(1963)		Open House!
(1963)		 A Little Taste
(1963)

Open House! is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith which was recorded in 1963 and released on the Riverside label. [1]

Johnny "Hammond" Smith American organist

John Robert "Johnny Hammond" Smith was an American soul jazz and hard bop organist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he was a renowned player of the Hammond B-3 organ so earning "Hammond" as a nickname, which also avoided his being confused with jazz guitarist Johnny Smith.

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions in 1953, the label played an important role in the jazz record industry for a decade. Riverside headquarters were located in New York City, at 553 West 51st Street.

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Reception

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The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars calling it "accessible, gritty, emotionally direct jazz that you didn't have to be an intellectual to comprehend". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Johnny "Hammond" Smith except as indicated

  1. "Open House" - 4:38
  2. "Cyra" - 5:27
  3. "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) - 5:01
  4. "Theme from Cleopatra" (Alex North) - 2:36
  5. "Blues for De-De" - 7:00
  6. "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 4:41
  7. "I Love You" (Cole Porter) - 5:50

Personnel

Hammond organ electric organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Various models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to specify a variety of sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier so it can drive a speaker cabinet. Around two million Hammond organs have been manufactured. The organ is commonly used with, and associated with, the Leslie speaker.

Thad Jones American jazz trumpeter

Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists."

Cornet musical instrument

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B♭, though there is also a soprano cornet in E♭ and a cornet in C. All are unrelated to the renaissance and early baroque cornett.

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References

  1. ↑ Riverside Records discography accessed November 5, 2012
  2. 1 2 Henderson, A. Allmusic Review accessed November 5, 2012
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