Hobo Flats

Hobo Flats
Studio album by Jimmy Smith
Released 1963
Recorded March 15, 20, 1963
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 31:26 CD reissue
Label Verve
V6-8544
Producer Creed Taylor
Jimmy Smith chronology
Prayer Meetin'
(1963)		 Hobo Flats
(1963)		 Any Number Can Win
(1963)

Hobo Flats is an album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith arranged by Oliver Nelson.[1] 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.[2]

Billboard magazine included Hobo Flats in its 'Pop Spotlight' for the week of 27 April 1963.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]

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."[4]

Track listing

  1. "Hobo Flats" (Oliver Nelson) - 4:46
  2. "Blueberry Hill" (Al Lewis, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock) - 4:56
  3. "Walk Right In" (Gus Cannon, Erik Darling, Hosea Woods) - 3:32
  4. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) - 4:23
  5. "The Preacher" (Horace Silver) - 6:16
  6. "Meditation (Meditação)" (Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) - 3:06
  7. "I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson) - 4:27

Personnel

Performance
Production

References

  1. ↑ Discogs accessed March 20, 2015
  2. ↑ Hobo Flats - Awards at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (27 April 1963). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 27–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  4. 1 2 Leggett, S. Allmusic Review accessed November 26, 2010
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