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Hoochie Coochie Man (Jimmy Smith album)

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Released
  
September 1966

Label
  
Verve V6-8667

Release date
  
September 1966

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
34:05

Artist
  
Jimmy Smith

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Recorded
  
June 14, 1966 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Hoochie Cooche Man (1966)
  
Peter & the Wolf (1966)

Similar
  
Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise, The Incredible Jimmy S, Back at the Chicken Shack, At Club Baby Grand, Midnight Special

Hoochie Cooche Man is a 1966 album by Jimmy Smith arranged by Oliver Nelson.

Contents

Reception

Billboard reviewed the album in their September 3, 1966 issue and wrote that "Only six cuts on the LP, but they're all blockbusters, blues based rousers...".

Track listing

  1. "I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man" (Willie Dixon) – 6:00
  2. "One Mint Julep" (Rudy Toombs) – 5:30
  3. "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" (Claude Demitrius, Fleecie Moore) – 5:40
  4. "Boom Boom" (John Lee Hooker) – 6:12
  5. "Blues and the Abstract Truth" (Oliver Nelson) – 5:25
  6. "TNT" (Ben Tucker, Grady Tate) – 5:25

Personnel

  • Jimmy Smith – hammond organ
  • Oliver Nelson – arranger, conductor
  • Richard Davis – double bass
  • Bob Cranshaw – electric bass
  • Bobby Rosengarden – bongos, percussion
  • Grady Tate – drums
  • Donald Corrado, Willie Ruff – french horn
  • Barry Galbraith, Bill Suyker, Billy Butler, Kenny Burrell – guitar
  • Buddy Lucas – harmonica
  • Jack Agee, Jerome Richardson, Jerry Dodgion, Phil Woods, Bob Ashton – woodwind
  • Britt Woodman, Melba Liston, Quentin Jackson, Tom McIntosh – trombone
  • Ernie Royal, Gene Young, Joe Newman, Dick Williams – trumpet
  • Don Butterfield – tuba
    • Production
  • Chuck Stewart – photography
  • Creed Taylor – producer
  • Acy R. Lehman – cover design
  • Val Valentin – director of engineering
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

    • References

    Hoochie Coochie Man (Jimmy Smith album) Wikipedia
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