Hampton Hawes – For Real! (Vinyl LP)

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Description

**THIS IS A VINYL LP**

Release Date:  2024

Label:  Contemporary Records (Acoustic Sounds Series)

 

Track List

Side A

  1. Hip
  2. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
  3. Crazeology

Side B

  1. Numbers Game
  2. For Real
  3. I Love You

 

 

Notes

180-gram LPs pressed at Quality Record Pressings!

Stoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets

Series supervised by Chad Kassem CEO of Acoustic Sounds

Mastered AAA by Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes

This re-visiting of Hampton Hawes’ 1961 record, For Real!, comes four days after what would’ve been his 95th birthday. One of the most influential pianists of his time, the self-taught prodigy, was named “New Star of the Year” by DownBeat magazine.

Hawes shines bright in familiar territory: whether it’s his exquisite harmonic locked-hands style on the boppin’ “Crazeology,” recorded well after his friend Charlie Parker brought it to fame, or his lively, flittering rendition of the much-covered Cole Porter ballad “I Love You.” Here, he’s backed by Clifford Brown/Max Roach saxophonist Harold Land and Scott LaFaro, the gone-too-soon double bassist famous for his work with the Bill Evans Trio.

This new edition, released as part of the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series, features (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QRP, and presented in a Stoughton Printing tip-on jacket.