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| 1. | Big Foot
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| 2. | Ray's Idea
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| 3. | Stella by Starlight
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| 4. | Blues for Jacque
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| 5. | I Should Care
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| 6. | Bird Song
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| 7. | Yesterdays
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| 8. | What's New?
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| 9. | Just One of Those Things
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| 10. | I'll Remember April
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| 11. | Cheryl
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| 12. | Clue 'N' Boogie
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Jazz
Recorded at Contemporary's Studio, Los Angeles, California on January 18, 1956 and in March 1958
Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (1999, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California)
Hampton Hawes - Piano
Frank Butler - Drums
Larance Marable - Drums
Scott LaFaro - Bass
Hampton Hawes (1928-1977) was one of the most gifted and natural of jazz musicians, an artist who played mostly by ear and who was a superbly communicative soloist. The Los Angeles native was a devotee of the bebop geniuses Charlie Parker and Bud Powell and had a nationwide reputation. These previously unreleased late-Fifties recordings show why, as he puts a singular stamp on his interpretations, investing them with a compelling mixture of hard swing and sweetly melodic lines. In the excellent company of bass greats Paul Chambers and Scott LaFaro and drummers Larance Marable and Frank Butler, Hamp scores with Bird's "Big Foot" and "Cheryl" and choice standards like "Yesterdays." Though the music was recorded in a studio, it has the intimacy of a live date.
* Angel Balestier - Digital Editing, Transfers
* Kirk Felton - Mastering
* Lester Koenig - Producer
* Roy DuNann - Engineer
* Steve Livingston - Digital Editing, Transfers
* Yves Dussin - Cover Art
Includes liner notes by Robert Gordon
The essence of this set is Charlie Parker's numerous variations on "I Got Rhythm" and Parker's key blues-based tunes, such as "Confirmation." The result is a spirited, highly communicative session, where pianist Hampton Hawes gets to the core of the bop idiom. It's a mystery why these tracks from 1956 and 1958 went unreleased until 1999. They come from a key creative period in Hawes' career when he was enjoying new levels of commercial and critical acclaim. Regardless, the music has now been done justice in a well-mastered release that will please fans of Hawes and of bop piano in general. From a lesser artist, the dry, unadorned, direct style at the center of Hawes' playing could expose technical vulnerabilities. In Hawes' case, it exposes a natural, fluent grace of phrasing and rhythm. Each track is a freshly interpreted joy ride across familiar chord changes. Bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Larance Marable, not Hawes' regular partners from this period, are prominent, supportive parts of the pianist's heartbeat. Besides the Parker originals and Parker-derived themes, there are fine versions of several standards, "Yesterdays" and "Stella by Starlight" being just two deliriously swinging highlights. The three tracks from a 1958 date, with Scott LaFaro on bass and Frank Butler on drums, maintain the same joyous pulse of the earlier tracks.
---Jim Todd, All Music Guide |
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