Hoochie Cooche Man

Hoochie Cooche Man
Hoochie Cooche Man
Studio album by Jimmy Smith
Released	September 1966
Recorded	June 14, 1966
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre	Jazz
Length	34:05
Label	Verve V6-8667
Producer	Creed Taylor
Jimmy Smith chronology
Singles from Hoochie Cooche Man
	"I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man, Part. 1"; Released: July 1966;

Hoochie Cooche Man is a 1966 album by Jimmy Smith arranged by Oliver Nelson.^[1] The album title has also been spelled as Hoochie Coochie Man.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

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...".^[2]

Track listing

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

Personnel

Musicians

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

Technical

Creed Taylor – producer
Val Valentin – director of engineering
Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
Acy R. Lehman – cover design
Chuck Stewart – photography

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1966)	Peak position	Total weeks
U.S. Billboard 200	77^[3]	14

Single

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1966	"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Part I)"	Billboard Hot 100	94^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Hoochie Cooche Man at AllMusic
^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (3 September 1966). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 1–. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^ "Billboard 200 - Jimmy Smith". Retrieved December 21, 2017.
^ "Billboard Hot 100 - Jimmy Smith". Retrieved December 21, 2017.

[Allmusic-1] Hoochie Cooche Man at AllMusic

[Inc.1966-2] Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (3 September 1966). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 1–. ISSN 0006-2510. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

[3] "Billboard 200 - Jimmy Smith". Retrieved December 21, 2017.

[4] "Billboard Hot 100 - Jimmy Smith". Retrieved December 21, 2017.

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Verve albums	Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (1962) Hobo Flats (1963) Any Number Can Win (1963) Blue Bash! (with Kenny Burrell, 1963) The Cat (1964) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964) Christmas '64 (1964) Monster (1965) Organ Grinder Swing (1965) Got My Mojo Workin' (1966) Hoochie Coochie Man (1966) Peter & the Wolf (1966) Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (with Wes Montgomery, 1966) Further Adventures of Jimmy and Wes (1966) Respect (1967) The Boss (1968) Groove Drops (1970) The Other Side of Jimmy Smith (1970) Root Down (1972) Bluesmith (1972) Damn! (1995) Angel Eyes: Ballads & Slow Jams (1995) Dot Com Blues (2000)
Albums for other labels	Black Smith (1974)
With others	The Original Jam Sessions 1969 (Quincy Jones & Bill Cosby, 1969) Smackwater Jack (Quincy Jones, 1971) Ellington Is Forever (Kenny Burrell, 1975) Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Kenny Burrell, 1975) Straight Ahead (Stanley Turrentine, 1984) L.A. Is My Lady (Frank Sinatra, 1984) Bad (Michael Jackson, 1987) Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994)