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Backgrounder: Elmo Hope - Complete Trios

Backgrounder: Elmo Hope - Complete Trios

Pianist Elmo Hope's centenary was on June 27. To celebrate the bebop pianist and composer, here are five hours of Hope's trio recordings between 1953 and 1966. Before I serve up the music, here are the tracks and trios and their respective times on the Backgrounder: New Faces—-New Sounds (1953), with Elmo Hope (p), Percy Heath ...

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Elmo Hope Trio

Elmo Hope Trio

In 1957, pianist Elmo Hope moved from New York to Los Angeles. He had little choice. His cabaret license was suspended following a drug conviction, and the only place where he had musician friends and the likelihood of work was on the West Coast. As Leonard Feather remarks in his liner notes for one of Hope's ...

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Elmo Hope Trio

Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 1960
Track listing: "B's A-Plenty" – 5:47 "Barfly" – 6:18 "Eejah" – 3:55 "Boa" – 6:00 "Something for Kenny" – 6:29 "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 7:32 "Minor Bertha" – 4:51 "Tranquility" – 2:58


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