Have You Met Hank Jones

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Have You Met Hank Jones
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Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedJuly 9 and August 8 & 20, 1956
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length40:25
Label Savoy
MG 12084
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Hank Jones chronology
Bluebird
(1956)
Have You Met Hank Jones
(1956)
Hank Jones' Quartet
(1956)

Have You Met Hank Jones (also released as Hank Jones Solo Piano) is a solo album by American jazz pianist Hank Jones recorded in 1956 for the Savoy label. [1] [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
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Allmusic stated "Despite being a strong two-handed pianist falling into the transition between swing and bop, Jones tends to sound more swinging in a trio format, although these melodic and sometimes rhapsodic solos are also reasonably enjoyable". [3]

Track listing

  1. "It Had To Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 3:12
  2. "Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) - 3:14
  3. "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:23
  4. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:50
  5. "Kankakee Shout" (Hank Jones) - 3:10
  6. "Body & Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) - 3:37
  7. "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) - 2:28
  8. "Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 3:15
  9. "Teddy's Dream" (Teddy Von Seele) - 3:05
  10. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:12
  11. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 4:08
  12. "Solo Blues" (Jones) - 4:51

Personnel

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References

  1. Savoy Records Catalog: 12000 series accessed July 31, 2015
  2. Hank Jones Catalog accessed July 31, 2015
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Hank Jones Solo Piano – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved July 31, 2015.