{"product_id":"pre-order-hampton-hawes-four-with-barney-kessel-shelly-manne-red-mitchell-lp","title":"Hampton Hawes - Four! With Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne \u0026 Red Mitchell - Contemporary LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeaturing all-analog mastering by Bernie Grundman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePressed at Quality Record Pressings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStoughton Printing gatefold old-style tip-on jackets\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContinuing Craft Recordings' 70th Anniversary celebration of Contemporary Records!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCraft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds are proud to announce the Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds series, which begins with six album releases from the Contemporary Records catalog, celebrating 70 years of the legendary jazz label. The releases are supervised by Chad Kassem, CEO of Acoustic Sounds, the world's largest source for audiophile recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach title, originally engineered by Roy DuNann and\/or Howard Holzer, features all-analog mastering from the original tapes by legendary engineer Bernie Grundman (himself a former employee of the label), as well as unsurpassed audiophile pressing on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, presented in a Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe series highlights gems from Contemporary's extraordinary catalog and features artists who both defined and expanded the sound of West Coast jazz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuitarist Barney Kessel, drummer Shelly Manne, bassist Red Mitchell, and the supremely soulful Hampton Hawes, one of jazz's most appealing yet unsun pianists, fill out the quartet scorecard of the 1958 release Four!. Although much later in his career Hawes experimented with electronic keyboards and fusion music, at heart he was a bebopper, as this session makes abundantly clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith material like 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. Kessel, who played on the date, paid tribute to Hawes' \"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 \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFour!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UMG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54453398241609,"sku":"888072241015","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/4342\/3049\/files\/HamptonHawes_Four_LPPackshot_CoverwCraftSticker_1680x_png.webp?v=1779441430","url":"https:\/\/echoarchiv.com\/products\/pre-order-hampton-hawes-four-with-barney-kessel-shelly-manne-red-mitchell-lp","provider":"Echo Archive Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}