Northern Windows

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Northern Windows
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Studio album by Hampton Hawes
Released1974
RecordedJuly 18 & 19, 1974
Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California
Genre Jazz
Length33:33
Label Prestige
PR 10088
Producer David Axelrod
Hampton Hawes chronology
Playin' in the Yard
(1973)		Northern Windows
(1974)		 Hampton Hawes Live at the Great American Music Hall
(1974)

Northern Windows is an album by jazz pianist/keyboardist Hampton Hawes recorded for the Prestige label in 1974. [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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Reception

Professional ratings
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The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars. [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Hampton Hawes except as indicated

  1. "Sierra Morena" - 3:52
  2. "Go Down Moses" (Traditional) - 6:29
  3. "Bach" - 2:59
  4. "Web" - 3:32
  5. "Tune Axle Grease" - 5:05
  6. "C & H Sugar" - 11:36

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 used by many of the great musicians such as Ray Charles

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.

Snooky Young American musician

Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known for his mastery of the plunger mute, with which he was able to create a wide range of sounds.

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References

  1. ↑ Hampton Hawes discography accessed July 22, 2013
  2. 1 2 Allmusic Rating accessed July 22, 2013
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