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Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Somebody Loves Me 2. The Sermon 3. Embraceable You 4. I Remember You 5. A Night In Tunisia 6. Lover, Come Back To Me 7. Polka Dots and Moonbeams 8. Billy Boy 9. Body and Soul 10. Coolin' The Blues.
Hampton Hawes: Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes
by David Rickert
If everybody likes Hampton Hawes, why is he such a neglected figure today? Maybe it's because he is neither an innovator like Bud Powell nor an expressionist like Bill Evans. Maybe it was because he spent his time on the West Coast instead of the East Coast. Or maybe with covers like these, his albums get ...
Charlie Haden: An Analog Guy in a Digital World
by Clifford Allen
Born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, Charlie Haden came up in a musical family. After moving around the Midwest, he eventually settled in Los Angeles playing bass with Hampton Hawes, Elmo Hope, and Paul Bley. A fateful meeting in 1958 with Ornette Coleman netted Haden one of his most infamous gigs, which continued with brief ...
The Sermon
Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Down By The Riverside; Just A Closer Walk With Thee; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen; When The Roll Is Called Way Up Yonder; Go Down Moses; Joshua Fit De Battle Of Jericho; Blues N/C.
Hampton Hawes: The Sermon
by David Rickert
Hampton Hawes recorded The Sermon a few days before he was sent to prison for five years on drug charges. The session remained imprisoned for much longer, only receiving a brief release after Hawes’ death. Finally out on CD, The Sermon, as one might expect, is an album of spirituals and church hymns given the jazz ...
Hampton Hawes: The Sermon
by C. Michael Bailey
Grace under pressure... While the West Coast Jazz pianist are not was well known as their East Coast brothers. However, the West Coast did produce their share of fine pianists. Dolo Coker, Carl Perkins, and Gene Russell just to mention three. Perhaps the best of the West Coast bunch was Hampton Hawes, a sort of Bud ...
Hampton Hawes: Bird Song
by Derek Taylor
Here are two previously unreleased Hawes sessions that until now have been collecting dust on the vault shelves for nearly five decades extricated by the particularly persistent producer Eric Miller for listeners’ approval. Anyone familiar with Hawes will immediately recognize what a find these recordings are. Hawes was the consummate obstacle to critics who sought to ...
