{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Open House! | type = Studio | artist = Johnny "Hammond" Smith | cover = Open House! (Johnny Hammond Smith album).jpg | alt = | released = 1963 | recorded = 1963<br>New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Riverside<br/>RLP 482 | producer = Orrin Keepnews | chronology = Johnny "Hammond" Smith | prev_title = Mr. Wonderful | prev_year = 1963 | next_title = A Little Taste | next_year = 1963 }}
'''''Open House!''''' is an album by jazz organist Johnny "Hammond" Smith which was recorded in 1963 and released on the Riverside label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/catalog-400-series/#rlp-482 Riverside Records discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105154219/http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/catalog-400-series/#rlp-482 |date=2012-11-05 }} accessed November 5, 2012</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }}
The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars calling it "accessible, gritty, emotionally direct jazz that you didn't have to be an intellectual to comprehend".<ref name="Allmusic">Henderson, A. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/open-house-mw0000010684 Allmusic Review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222073056/http://www.allmusic.com/album/open-house-mw0000010684 |date=2013-02-22 }} accessed November 5, 2012</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions by Johnny "Hammond" Smith except as indicated'' # "Open House" - 4:38 # "Cyra" - 5:27 # "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) - 5:01 # "Theme from Cleopatra" (Alex North) - 2:36 # "Blues for De-De" - 7:00 # "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 4:41 # "I Love You" (Cole Porter) - 5:50 ==Personnel== *Johnny "Hammond" Smith - organ *Thad Jones - cornet, trumpet *Seldon Powell — tenor saxophone, flute *Eddie McFadden - guitar *Leo Stevens (tracks 1–4, 6 & 7), Art Taylor (track 5) - drums *Ray Barretto - congas (tracks 1–4, 6 & 7)
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