All Night Session 1

Hampton Hawes | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000YU9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,254 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Japanese remastered reissue of 1956 album. Packaged in a limited edition miniature gatefold LP sleeve. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great extended bop jamming, May 29, 2001

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Michael G. Mcneill "[e-mail]" (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Night Session 1 (Audio CD)

The first of a three volumes of an all-night recording session. Here, the superb quartet (rounded out by Jim Hall, Red Mitchell, and Buzz Freeman) take a little longer with each tune than on the other volumes (perhaps they got tired), and also treat two bluesy Hawes originals ("Takin' Care" and "Hampton's Pulpit"). Mr. Hawes solos with vigor, occasionally brining the feel into double time or Latin. I am particularly impressed with the interaction between Mr. Hawes and Mr. Hall. They make a great frontline team, completing each other's phrases and overlapping their lines. As a jazz pianist, I know it is very difficult to work with another chordal instrument. These two do an exemplary job.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Landmark Jazz piano!, May 9, 2006

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Pat Marafiote "pmarafio" (NYC Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Night Session 1 (Audio CD)

If you enjoy jazz piano, the All Night Session series is an essential addition to your library. The folks at Contemporary Records switched on the recorder and Hampton, Jim Hall, Red Mitchell, and Buzz Freeman played through the night and in to the next day making some incredibly magical recordings!

Hampton Hawes is one of the most underrated and unknown pianists in the jazz heritage. He is as talented and gifted as other icons of his era like Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Tommy Flanagan, and Red Garland. In my opinion, his mastery of the jazz-blues bebop style is without equal. Listen to "Hampton's Pulpit" or "Blue n Boogie" for examples. Hampton swings hard and with a ferocity that lifts you out of your seat. On hard-core uptempo bop tunes he is at his peak on these recordings. Check out "Broadway" - the intro is reminiscent of vintage Parker, but played on piano. It conjurs up memories of the famous Parker alto break on the DIal Night in Tunisia recording.

Hampton's technique was precise. He had Horace Silver's sharp aggressive attack with Bud Powell's mastery of uptempo extended melodic lines. If you take Hawe's playing apart and analyze it, you'll find that he had a library of bebop and vintage blues phrases that he used repeatedly but had an ability to keep firing them out chorus after chorus with intense soul, passion, and fire!

Hampton was a sensitive comper. Listen to his backing of Jim Hall on these recordings and you can appreciate his light rhythmic support. By the way, Jim Hall sounds fantastic on this set - relaxed, articulate, and inspired.

All three All Night Session discs are very highly recommended! Hopefully Hampton's playing will deservedly reach more listeners in years to come.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two-CD Compilation from a High Quality Source Master, August 8, 2011

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SwissAmerican - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Night Session! (Audio CD)

This is a review of the 2011 reissue on the Phoenix label, All Night Session!.

This appears to be a "reissue" of the OOP JVC Japan 20-bit remastered 2-CD compilation from 2001, making this set an outstanding value for jazz listeners and audiophiles alike. Package includes the original liner notes, a good selection of photographs and corrected session recording information. As other reviewers have noted, this set represents the work of a single after-hours session in Contemporary's small recording facility on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. It ranks with Sonny Rollins' Way Out West as among the best sessions recorded by Contemporary.

Since Universal, which controls the original masters, won't license these justly acclaimed recordings in the US domestic market and the only other recent reissues in print are three individual Japanese Universal/Zoom CDs ($24.98 each on Amazon), I encourage listeners who appreciate the musical genius of Hampton Hawes and the technical ability of recording engineer Roy DuNann to purchase this European edition rather than the Japanese imports. Take the $$ you saved and make a donation to a jazz program at your local high school or college.