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For Real!

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Hip; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Crazeology; Numbers Game; For Real; I Love You.

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Richard J Salvucci's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Richard J Salvucci
December 18, 2024

Bandleader Glenn Miller would introduce a part of his 1930s radio broadcast with the phrase “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." If you review enough classic vinyl rereleases, you get plenty of something old. The new here is obvious and a joy to hear. Only problem is that it will be 2025 before making ...

Article: Album Review

Hampton Hawes: For Real!

Read "For Real!" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
May 21, 2024

There are, Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, no second acts in American life. For pianist Hampton Hawes, born in 1928, there was scarcely a first. No sooner was he established as an up-and-coming talent than he was drafted into the Army. When he got out, he tried to pick up where he left off. A heroin habit ...