The Final Sessions
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | The Final Sessions |
| type | Compilation |
| artist | Elmo Hope |
| cover | The Final Sessions.jpg |
| released | 1996 |
| recorded | March 8 and May 9, 1966 |
| New York City | |
| genre | Jazz |
| length | 121:52 |
| CD reissue | |
| label | Evidence |
| ECD 22147-2 | |
| chronology | Elmo Hope |
| prev_title | Sounds from Rikers Island |
| prev_year | 1963 |
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| name = The Final Sessions | type = Compilation | artist = Elmo Hope | cover = The Final Sessions.jpg | alt = | released = 1996 | recorded = March 8 and May 9, 1966 New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 121:52 CD reissue | label = Evidence ECD 22147-2 | producer = | chronology = Elmo Hope | prev_title = Sounds from Rikers Island | prev_year = 1963 | next_title = | next_year =
The Final Sessions is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope which compiles sessions recorded in 1966, originally released as Last Sessions Volume One and Last Sessions Volume Two on the Inner City label in 1977.
Reception
| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = |rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz |rev2score = | rev3 = DownBeat | rev3score = The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Elmo Hope is in surprisingly joyous form throughout the set, sounding both original and accessible to bebop fans. Highly recommended".
Track listing
All compositions by Elmo Hope except as indicated
Disc One:
- "I Love You" (Cole Porter) – 10:50
- "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 10:16
- "Stellations" – 4:22
- "Pam" – 2:47
- "Elmo's Blues" – 10:42
- "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 8:42
- "Low Tide" – 4:57
- "Low Tide" [alternate take] – 6:32 Disc Two:
- "Roll On" – 2:56
- "Roll On" [alternate take] – 5:52
- "Vi-Ann" – 6:37
- "Vi-Ann" [alternate take] – 5:40
- "Toothsome Threesome" – 8:52
- "Grammy" – 8:26
- "A Kiss for My Love" – 8:04
- "Something for Kenny" – 6:40
- "Punch That" – 9:37
Personnel
- Elmo Hope – piano
- John Ore – bass
- Clifford Jarvis (Disc One, tracks 6–8 and Disc Two), Philly Joe Jones (Disc One, tracks 1–5) – drums
References
References
- [http://www.attictoys.com/jazz/EH.HTM Elmo Hope discography] accessed November 29, 2012
- (2008). "The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings". [[Penguin Books.
- Berg, Chuck. (March 1980). "Elmo Hope: ''Last Sessions'' / ''Hope from Rikers Island''".
- Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-final-sessions-mw0000184983 Allmusic Review] accessed August 20, 2012
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