Track Listing

1. I Got Rhythm
2. What Is This Thing Called Love
3. Blues The Most
4. So In Love
5. Feelin' Fine
6. Hamp's Blues
7. Easy Living
8. All The Things You Are
9. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
10. Carioca

Product Details

• Released on: 1991-07-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.com
West Coast jazz of the 1950s was known for "cool school" textures and less rhythmic drive than its East Coast counterpart, but Hampton Hawes represented a different side of California jazz, playing intense hard bop with as much focused energy as any resident New Yorker. This 1955 recording was the first and the most potent of Hawes's series of trio recordings with Red Mitchell on bass and Chuck Thompson on drums, revealing the pianist as one of the finest musicians working in the bop idiom. He could reel off choruses of flying single-note lines with technique and invention that would rival Bud Powell's, or switch to extended passages in forceful block chords. Hawes is equally at home here on standards, ballads, and his original bop blues tunes, pushing harmonic extension to the limits. In the process, he develops a personal weave of joy and passion that represents one of the high points of jazz piano in the era. --Stuart Broomer

Album Description
Japanese limited edition issue of the album classic in a deluxe, miniaturized LP sleeve replica of the original vinyl album artwork.