Open House (album)

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Open House
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Studio album by Jimmy Smith
Released January 1968
Recorded March 22, 1960
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length38:03
Label Blue Note
BST 84269
Producer Alfred Lion
Jimmy Smith chronology
Crazy! Baby
(1960)		Open House
(1968)		 Plain Talk
(1960)

Open House is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith featuring performances recorded in 1960, but not released on the Blue Note label until 1968. [1] The album didn't appear on CD until being reissued in 1992, as a twofer which also included Plain Talk , compiling all the recordings from the session.

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Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

<i>Plain Talk</i> (album) 1968 studio album by Jimmy Smith

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Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars calling it "a fast-paced studio jam session". [2]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

  1. "Open House" (Jimmy Smith) – 16:15
  2. "Old Folks" (Willard Robison, Dedette Lee Hill) – 4:49
  3. "Sista Rebecca" (Smith) – 10:54
  4. "Embraceable You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 6:05

Personnel

Musicians

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Additional musicians

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Technical

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References

  1. ↑ Blue Note discography accessed November 25, 2010
  2. 1 2 Erlewine, M. Allmusic Review accessed November 26, 2010
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