Hampton Hawes - Four! With Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell

Hybrid Stereo SACD

Mastered direct to DSD from the original stereo tape

Four! highlights the timeless talents of Hampton Hawes (Piano), Barney Kessel (Guitar), Shelly Manne (Drums) & Red Mitchell (Bass). First released in 1958 and recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, this new edition features remastered audio direct to DSD from the original tapes.

Though much later in his career Hampton Hawes experimented with electronic keyboards and fusion music, at heart he was a bebopper, as this session makes abundantly clear. With material such as Charlie Parker's "Yardbird Suite," his own "Up Blues," and Red Mitchell's "Bow Jest" (on which Mitchell plays his first recorded bowed solo), Hawes is at a creative peak here. Barney Kessel, who played on the date, paid tribute to Hawes's "inexhaustible ideas on the blues. . . no one else in modern jazz plays the blues better." And nobody could tie a rhythm section together better than Shelly Manne, the fourth party in this boundingly energetic Four!

1. Yardbird Suite

2. There Will Never Be Another You

3. Bow Jest

4. Sweet Sue

5. Up Blues

6. Like Someone in Love

7. Love Is Just Around the Corner

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