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Hope-Full

Hope-Full is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope recorded in 1961 for the Riverside label. Hope performs 5 solo piano pieces and three piano duets with his wife Bertha.

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Hope-Full
Studio album by
Elmo Hope
Released1962
RecordedNovember 9 & 14, 1961
New York City
GenreJazz
Length39:44
LabelRiverside
RLP 408
Elmo Hope chronology
Homecoming!
(1961) 		Hope-Full
(1962) 		Sounds from Rikers Island
(1963)

Hope-Full is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope recorded in 1961 for the Riverside label.1 Hope performs 5 solo piano pieces and three piano duets with his wife Bertha.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar2
The Penguin Guide to JazzStarStarStar3

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "solo albums by the bop musicians were considered a bit unusual, but Elmo Hope (an underrated composer and pianist) fares quite well during this Riverside set".2

Track listing

All compositions by Elmo Hope except as indicated

  1. "Underneath" - 4:35
  2. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 5:18
  3. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Traditional) - 4:58
  4. "Most Beautiful" - 5:03
  5. "Blues Left and Right" - 6:05
  6. "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn) - 3:32
  7. "My Heart Stood Still" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:23
  8. "Moonbeams" - 4:50

Personnel

References

References

  1. Riverside Records discography accessed October 26, 2012
  2. Yanow, Scott. "Elmo Hope: Hope-Full". AllMusic. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 723. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.