Blues for Walls

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Blues for Walls
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Studio album by Hampton Hawes
Released 1973
Recorded January 16–18, 1973
Studio Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California
Genre Jazz
Length39:26
Label Prestige
PR 10060
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Hampton Hawes chronology
Universe
(1972)		Blues for Walls
(1973)		 Live at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago
(1973)

Blues for Walls is an album by jazz pianist/keyboardist Hampton Hawes recorded for the Prestige label in 1973. [1]

Hampton Hawes American jazz pianist

Hampton Barnett Hawes, Jr. was an American jazz pianist. He was the author of the memoir Raise Up Off Me, which won the Deems-Taylor Award for music writing in 1975.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "For a few years (mostly 1972-74), pianist Hampton Hawes spent time exploring electric keyboards. His music became funkier and less distinctive, but his recordings from the era (which are mostly out of print) are certainly quite listenable, if a bit dated in places". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Hampton Hawes.

  1. "Blues for Walls" – 7:50
  2. "Sun's Dance" – 7:12
  3. "Hamp's Collard Green Blues" – 4:10
  4. "Brother Brantley" – 4:55
  5. "Rain Forest" – 5:17
  6. "Carmel" – 5:25
  7. "Me-Ho" – 4:37

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Electric piano musical instrument

An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations which are converted into electrical signals by magnetic pickups, which are then connected to an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to make a sound loud enough for the performer and audience to hear. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument. Instead, it is an electro-mechanical instrument. Some early electric pianos used lengths of wire to produce the tone, like a traditional piano. Smaller electric pianos used short slivers of steel to produce the tone. The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s; the 1929 Neo-Bechstein electric grand piano was among the first. Probably the earliest stringless model was Lloyd Loar's Vivi-Tone Clavier. A few other noteworthy producers of electric pianos include Baldwin Piano and Organ Company and the Wurlitzer Company.

Synthesizer electronic instrument capable of producing a wide range of sounds

A synthesizer or synthesiser is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals that may be converted to sound. Synthesizers may imitate traditional musical instruments such as piano, flute, vocals, or natural sounds such as ocean waves; or generate novel electronic timbres. They are often played with a musical keyboard, but they can be controlled via a variety of other devices, including music sequencers, instrument controllers, fingerboards, guitar synthesizers, wind controllers, and electronic drums. Synthesizers without built-in controllers are often called sound modules, and are controlled via USB, MIDI or CV/gate using a controller device, often a MIDI keyboard or other controller.

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References

  1. ↑ Hampton Hawes discography accessed July 22, 2013
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed July 22, 2013
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