Complete Studio Recordings: The Master Tapes

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All Music Guide - Arwulf Arwulf
Pianist and composer Elmo Hope's music might best be compared with that of Herbie Nichols. Both men shared some of Bud Powell's intensity, Thelonious Monk's inventive whimsy and, at times, hints of young Cecil Taylor's realistic approach to the impossible. Over the years, both Nichols and Hope have achieved posthumous respect from an international jazz community which is itself marginalized. While Herbie Nichols could be said to have been ignored to death, Elmo Hope's life and work were grievously complicated and ultimately extinguished (in 1967 at the age of 44) by the same narcotic plague that afflicted so many of his contemporaries. Because Hope's music has never been ...
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All Music Guide - Arwulf Arwulf
Pianist and composer Elmo Hope's music might best be compared with that of Herbie Nichols. Both men shared some of Bud Powell's intensity, Thelonious Monk's inventive whimsy and, at times, hints of young Cecil Taylor's realistic approach to the impossible. Over the years, both Nichols and Hope have achieved posthumous respect from an international jazz community which is itself marginalized. While Herbie Nichols could be said to have been ignored to death, Elmo Hope's life and work were grievously complicated and ultimately extinguished (in 1967 at the age of 44) by the same narcotic plague that afflicted so many of his contemporaries. Because Hope's music has never been adequately recognized or appreciated, the 2007 release of Gambit's anthologized Complete Studio Recordings of the Elmo Hope Trio (1953-1966) is a glorious and unprecedented achievement. Born in 1923, St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was the son of West Indian immigrants who settled in New York. He grew up with Bud Powell, studying J.S. Bach and dreaming of new concepts in modern music. Hope's first recordings were with trumpeter Joe Morris, whose little R&B band boasted such innovative young minds as Johnny Griffin, Percy Heath and Philly Joe Jones. When in 1953 Alfred Lion gave Hope his first opportunity to record as a leader, he chose Heath and Jones to catalyze the eight tracks issued on New Faces, New Sounds. Other albums reissued here entirely or in part are Meditations, Elmo Hope Trio, Homecoming!, Sounds from Rikers Island (later reissued as Hope from Rikers Island); Here's Hope, High Hope and The Final Sessions. As his career progressed, Hope was able to record with a series of excellent bassists: John Ore, famous for his work with Monk; Jimmy Bond, a sideman for Chet Baker and Ella Fitzgerald; the mighty Curtis Counce; Sun Ra's Ronnie Boykins, Blue Note sessionman Butch Warren and Coltrane's close collaborator Paul Chambers. While various skillful drummers pop up throughout this compilation (Willie Jones, Frank Butler, Clifford Jarvis and Granville T. Hogan), Philly Joe Jones was Elmo Hope's preferred percussionist from his first trio recording date through to the very last. Even as some of his music rippled with the restless energy of Herbie Nichols, Hope also made a point of composing and performing ritualistic reveries of profound and breathtaking slowness, sometimes drifting into a trance-like space where the listener may follow in order to contemplate the mysteries of life and death, of creativity and collective improvisation. Like Herbie Nichols, Elmo Hope imprinted everything he wrote and played with an indelibly personalized, harmonically advanced language. This is an unprecedented opportunity to learn that language intimately, as never before has anyone bothered to compile this much Hope in one comprehensive edition.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 3/20/2007
  • Label: Gambit Spain
  • EAN: 8436028692620
  • Catalog Number: 69262

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Happy Hour (2:50)
  2. 2 Freffie (3:03)
  3. 3 Carving the Rock (2:54)
  4. 4 Hot Sauce (3:51)
  5. 5 Mo Is On (2:48)
  6. 6 Stars Over Marakesh (3:03)
  7. 7 I Remember You (2:44)
  8. 8 It's a Lovely Day Today (2:46)
  9. 9 Sweet and Lovely (2:59)
  10. 10 All the Things You Are (3:22)
  11. 11 Ghost of a Chance (4:55)
  12. 12 Falling in Love with Love (2:57)
  13. 13 Quit It (4:24)
  14. 14 Huh! (3:46)
  15. 15 My Heart Stood Still (3:22)
  16. 16 It's a Lovely Day Today (3:39)
  17. 17 I'm in the Mood for Love (4:25)
  18. 18 Lucky Strike (2:53)
  19. 19 Blue Mo (6:41)
  20. 20 Elmo's Fire (Homecoming) (2:41)
  21. 21 The Countdown (4:09)
  22. 22 Eejah (3:55)
Disc 2
  1. 1 B's A-Plenty (5:44)
  2. 2 Barfly (6:14)
  3. 3 Boa (5:57)
  4. 4 Something for Kenny (6:25)
  5. 5 Like Someone in Love (7:28)
  6. 6 Minor Bertha (4:48)
  7. 7 Tranquility (3:01)
  8. 8 La Berthe (3:12)
  9. 9 Homecoming (5:11)
  10. 10 One Mo' Blues (6:45)
  11. 11 Imagination (6:46)
  12. 12 Kevin (4:14)
  13. 13 Three Silver Quarters (4:46)
  14. 14 Hot Sauce (3:36)
  15. 15 When the Groove Is Low (5:04)
Disc 3
  1. 1 Freffie (3:39)
  2. 2 De Dah (4:28)
  3. 3 Abdullah (3:46)
  4. 4 Stars Over Marakesh (6:45)
  5. 5 Chips (4:58)
  6. 6 Moe's Bluff (4:21)
  7. 7 Happy Hour (4:05)
  8. 8 Mo Is On (4:31)
  9. 9 Maybe So (4:39)
  10. 10 Crazy (4:37)
  11. 11 Toothsome Threesome (8:52)
  12. 12 Low Tide (4:54)
  13. 13 Bird's View (6:35)
  14. 14 Something for Kenny (6:37)
  15. 15 VI-Ann (6:39)
Disc 4
  1. 1 Somebody Loves Me (8:43)
  2. 2 Grammy (8:23)
  3. 3 A Kiss for My Love (8:02)
  4. 4 Roll On (5:49)
  5. 5 Punch That (9:40)
  6. 6 I Love You (10:48)
  7. 7 A Night in Tunisia (10:13)
  8. 8 Stellations (4:19)
  9. 9 Pam (2:43)
  10. 10 Elmo's Blues (10:41)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Elmo Hope Primary Artist, Piano
Frank Butler Drums
Curtis Counce Bass
Philly Joe Jones Drums
Butch Warren Bass
Percy Heath Bass
Ronnie Boykins Bass
Clifford Jarvis Drums
John Ore Bass
Jimmy Bond Bass
Willie Jones III Drums
Granville T. Hogan Drums
Technical Credits
Irving Berlin Composer
Leonard Feather Liner Notes
Dizzy Gillespie Composer
Elmo Hope Composer
Sonny Rollins Composer
Jimmy McHugh Composer
Richard Rodgers Composer
Jerome Kern Composer
Gus Arnheim Composer
Johnny Burke Composer
Buddy DeSylva Composer
Dorothy Fields Composer
Ira Gitler Liner Notes
Oscar Hammerstein II Composer
Lorenz Hart Composer
Ballard MacDonald Composer
Frank Paparelli Composer
Cole Porter Composer
James Van Heusen Composer
Ray Avery Cover Photo
Harry Tobias Composer
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