Hobo Flats

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Released 1963 Artist Jimmy Smith Producer Creed Taylor Genre Jazz		Length 31:26 CD reissue Release date 1963 Label Verve Records

Recorded March 15, 20, 1963New York City Hobo Flats(1963) Any Number Can Win(1963) Similar Jimmy Smith albums, Jazz albums

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Hobo Flats is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith arranged by Oliver Nelson. It was Smith's second album for Verve Records.

On the Billboard 200 Hobo Flats peaked at number 11, and the title track was released as a single and peaked at number 69.

Billboard magazine included Hobo Flats in its 'Pop Spotlight' for the week of 27 April 1963.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Leggett awarded the album 3½ stars stating that "Smith bubbles and bounces through all of it at the B-3 while Nelson proceeds to fill every available corner with huge, sweeping orchestral washes and crescendos. The clear highlight, though, is the lead and title track, "Hobo Flats," which moves at a languid but wonderfully funky pace and establishes a groove as wide as the Mississippi River. Smith arguably was at his best in small combos, and at times he gets overwhelmed here by the big cinematic arrangements, but there's plenty to like with this set, even if it's a bit on the atypical side for Smith. It works well more than it doesn't."