| House Party | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Jimmy Smith |
| Cover: | House Party (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1958 |
| Studio: | Manhattan Towers, NYC |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 42:46 (LP) 53:20 (CD) |
| Label: | Blue Note BLP 4002 |
| Producer: | Alfred Lion |
| Chronology: | Jimmy Smith |
| Prev Title: | Groovin' at Small's Paradise |
| Prev Year: | 1957 |
| Next Title: | The Sermon! |
| Next Year: | 1958 |
House Party is the tenth studio album by American jazz organist Jimmy Smith, recorded on August 25, 1957 and February 25, 1958 and released on Blue Note in 1958—his fourteenth release for the label.[1]
Blue Note used the Manhattan Towers Hotel Ballroom in New York City for recording sessions in 1957–1958, while their recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder was still using his parents' Hackensack, N.J. home studio to record artists. House Party was the first of two Smith albums recorded on two dates, the second was Smith's next album The Sermon!, released in 1959. Blue Note mainly used the Manhattan Towers ballroom for larger groups of musicians, or when New York was a more convenient location to record the artists involved.
The AllMusic review by Lindsay Planer states, "the real pleasure lies in the experience of hearing it".[2]