Any Number Can Win (album)

{{Infobox album|

| name = Any Number Can Win

| type = album

| artist = Jimmy Smith

| cover = Any Number Can Win (album).jpg

| alt =

| released = 1963

| recorded = July 10,17,25 & 29, 1963

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 36:03 CD reissue

| label = Verve
V-8618

| producer = Creed Taylor (original), Richard Seidel (reissue)

| chronology = Jimmy Smith

| prev_title = Hobo Flats

| prev_year = 1963

| next_title = Blue Bash!

| next_year = 1963

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Any Number Can Win

| type = studio

| single1 = Theme From "Any Number Can Win"

| single1date = September 1963

}}

}}

Any Number Can Win is an album by the American jazz organist Jimmy Smith, arranged by Billy Byers and Claus Ogerman.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=any-number-can-win-mw0000601108|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=AllMusic|title=Any Number Can Win|access-date=March 23, 2015}}

On the Billboard albums chart, Any Number Can Win peaked at number 25, and the single of Smith's "(Theme From) Any Number Can Win" peaked at 96 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and on the Hot R&B Sides chart.

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book|last1=Cook|first1=Richard|author-link1=Richard Cook (journalist)|last2=Morton|first2=Brian|author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|year=2008|title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition=9th|publisher=Penguin|page=1313|isbn=978-0-141-03401-0}}

| rev3 = Record Mirror

| rev3Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite magazine |date=9 May 1964 |title=Jimmy Smith: Any Number Can Win |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/64/Record-Mirror-1964-05-09-S-OCR.pdf |magazine=Record Mirror |issue=165 |page=12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401225101/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/64/Record-Mirror-1964-05-09-S-OCR.pdf |archive-date=1 April 2022|access-date=15 August 2022}}

}}

Track listing

  1. "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis" (John Benson Brooks, Bob Russell) – 4:21
  2. "The Ape Woman" (Lalo Schifrin) – 3:21
  3. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 2:28
  4. "G'won Train" (Patti Bown) – 4:21
  5. "(Theme From) Any Number Can Win" (Michel Magne) – 2:10
  6. "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) – 2:51
  7. "The Sermon" (Jimmy Smith) – 7:40
  8. "Ruby" (Mitchell Parish, Heinz Roemheld) – 2:20
  9. "Tubs" (Smith) – 2:48
  10. "Blues for C.A." (Smith) – 3:43 Dedicated to Clarence Avant

Personnel

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Chart performance

=Album=

class="wikitable sortable"
Chart (1963)

!Peak
position

!Total
weeks

align="left"|U.S. Billboard 200

| style="text-align:center;"|26{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jimmy-smith/chart-history/tlp/|title=Billboard 200 - Jimmy Smith|access-date=December 3, 2017}}

| style="text-align:center;"|33

=Single=

class="wikitable"
Year

!Single

!Chart

!Position

1963

|"(Theme From) Any Number Can Win"

|Billboard Hot 100

| style="text-align:center;"|96{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/jimmy-smith/chart-history|title=Billboard Hot 100 - Jimmy Smith|access-date=December 3, 2017}}

References

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