Sounds from Rikers Island

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Sounds from Rikers Island
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Studio album by Elmo Hope
Released 1963
Recorded August 19, 1963
Riker's Island, New York
Genre Jazz
Length36:13
Label Audio Fidelity
AFLP 2119
Producer Walt Dickerson
Elmo Hope chronology
Hope-Full
(1962) Hope-Full1962		Sounds from Rikers Island
(1963)		 The Final Sessions
(1966) The Final Sessions1966

Sounds from Rikers Island is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope recorded in 1963 for the Audio Fidelity label. [1]

Elmo Hope American musician

St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, chiefly in the bebop and hard bop genres. He grew up playing and listening to jazz and classical music with Bud Powell, and both were close friends of another influential pianist, Thelonious Monk.

Audio Fidelity Records

Audio Fidelity Records, was a record company out of New York City, most active during the 1950s and 1960s. They are best known for having produced the first mass-produced American stereophonic long-playing record in November 1957.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek stated "As a musical document, it is an overwhelming success. Hope surrounds himself with musicians whose reputations are now legendary... the level of musical empathy and improvisational reciprocity is inspiring. This is an obscure date but it shouldn't be, as it features some of Hope and Gilmore's finest playing, and shows Jones in rare, lighthearted form". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Elmo Hope except as indicated

  1. "One for Joe" - 4:34
  2. "Ecstasy" - 3:15
  3. "Three Silver Quarters" - 4:45
  4. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) - 5:57
  5. "Trippin'" - 3:19
  6. "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges) - 4:07
  7. "Kevin" - 4:15
  8. "Monique" - 3:02
  9. "Groovin' High" (Gillespie) - 2:59

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.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Soprano saxophone the third smallest member of the saxophone family

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References

  1. ↑ Elmo Hope discography accessed November 26, 2012
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 26, 2012
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 724. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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