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| 1. | I Got Rhythm
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| 2. | What Is This Thing Called Love?
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| 3. | Blues the Most
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| 4. | So in Love
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| 5. | Feelin' Fine
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| 6. | Hamp's Blues
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| 7. | Easy Living
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| 8. | All the Things You Are
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| 9. | These Foolish Things
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| 10. | Carioca
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Jazz
Hampton Hawes Trio
Hampton Hawes - Keyboards, Piano
Chuck Thompson - Drums
Red Mitchell - Bass
One of the forces in West Coast jazz circles, even from his neophyte days of the late Forties, was Hampton Hawes. When he played with the coolsters in the early Fifties he fit in stylistically but also supplied some of the needed heat in both his rhythmic comping and solos.
After Army service, when he returned to Los Angeles in 1955, he eventually formed a trio with bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Chuck Thompson. It meshed as cohesively as any threesome in jazz, presenting a dynamic in which Hawes's tremendous blues feeling and powerful articulation melded perfectly with Mitchell's sensitive accompaniment and brilliant solo abilities and Thompson's unrelenting concern for ensemble propulsion.
* Alex de Paola - Cover Photo
* John Palladino - Engineer
* Lester Koenig - Liner Notes, Producer
* Pauline Annon - Cover Design
* Shigeo Muyamoto - Mastering
The first of pianist Hampton Hawes' long string of Contemporary recordings (which, as with most of his output for that label, has been reissued on CD by Original Jazz Classics) features him in his early prime in a trio with bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Chuck Thompson. In addition to three of his basic originals, Hawes performs fresh and swinging versions of seven standards, making such overplayed tunes such as "I Got Rhythm," "What Is This Thing Called Love?," and "All the Things You Are" really come alive. A gem, the first of many classic Hawes Contemporary dates.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Hampton Hawes
Active Decades: '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Nov 13, 1928 in Los Angeles, CA
Died: May 22, 1977 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Bop, Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz
Hampton Hawes was one of the finest jazz pianists of the 1950s, a fixture on the Los Angeles scene who brought his own interpretations to the dominant Bud Powell style. In the mid- to late '40s, he played with Sonny Criss, Dexter Gordon, and Wardell Gray, among others on Central Avenue. He was with Howard McGhee's band (1950-1951), played with Shorty Rogers and the Lighthouse All-Stars, served in the Army (1952-1954), and then led trios in the L.A. area, recording many albums for Contemporary. Arrested for heroin possession in 1958, Hawes spent five years in prison until he was pardoned by President Kennedy. He led trios for the remainder of his life, using electric piano (which disturbed his longtime fans) for a period in the early to mid-'70s, but returned to acoustic piano before dying from a stroke in 1977. Hampton Hawes' memoirs, -Raise Up Off Me (1974), are both frank and memorable, and most of his records (for Xanadu, Prestige, Savoy, Contemporary, Black Lion, and Freedom) are currently available.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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