Hampton Hawes

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Sonora 00:00 Tools
Hamp's Blues 00:00 Tools
Dangerous 04:29 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Stella by Starlight 00:00 Tools
I'm All Smiles 07:39 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love 04:43 Tools
Yardbird Suite 00:00 Tools
You and the Night and the Music 00:00 Tools
Blues for Jacque 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Blues the Most 00:00 Tools
Steeplechase 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
Love Is Just Around the Corner 00:00 Tools
The Sermon 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Thou Swell 00:00 Tools
So in Love 00:00 Tools
Like Someone in Love 00:00 Tools
Up Blues 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 00:00 Tools
Bow Jest 00:00 Tools
Easy Living 04:47 Tools
I Hear Music 03:23 Tools
Feelin' Fine 00:00 Tools
Jordu 00:00 Tools
Autumn in New York 05:24 Tools
Carioca 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue 05:38 Tools
Hip 00:00 Tools
My Romance 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me 00:00 Tools
I Should Care 00:00 Tools
Coolin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
The Awful Truth 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) 00:00 Tools
Go Down Moses 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Two Bass Hit 00:00 Tools
Section Blues 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April 00:00 Tools
Fly Me To The Moon 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
Broadway 00:00 Tools
St. Thomas 00:00 Tools
The Green Leaves Of Summer 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loves Me 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Secret Love 00:00 Tools
For Real 00:00 Tools
Numbers Game 00:00 Tools
Hip - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You 00:00 Tools
Groovin' High 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Crazeology (Little Bennie) 00:00 Tools
My Foolish Heart 00:00 Tools
Polka Dots and Moonbeams 00:00 Tools
I Remember You 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (feat. Harold Land) 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul 00:00 Tools
A Night in Tunisia 00:00 Tools
April in Paris 00:00 Tools
The More I See You 00:00 Tools
Takin' Care 00:00 Tools
Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Lover, Come Back to Me 00:00 Tools
I Love You - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
For Heaven's Sake 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
Black Forest Blues 00:00 Tools
Hampton's Pulpit 00:00 Tools
Vierd Blues 00:00 Tools
Billy Boy 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies 00:00 Tools
Down by the Riverside 00:00 Tools
The Seance 00:00 Tools
Sunny 00:00 Tools
Blues Enough 00:00 Tools
universe 00:00 Tools
Easy Street 00:00 Tools
It's You Or No One 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 00:00 Tools
Spanish Steps (take 2) 00:00 Tools
Just One of Those Things 00:00 Tools
Sierra Morena 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
little bird 00:00 Tools
G.K. Blues 00:00 Tools
Suddenly I Thought Of You 00:00 Tools
Blue 'N' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Crazeology - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Just a Closer Walk with Thee 00:00 Tools
Woody'n You 00:00 Tools
Will You Still Be Mine 00:00 Tools
Tune Axle Grease 00:00 Tools
Between the Devil And the Deep Blue Sea 00:00 Tools
Big Foot 00:00 Tools
Bird Song 00:00 Tools
Numbers Game - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 00:00 Tools
Ray's Idea 00:00 Tools
Buzzy 00:00 Tools
Blues #4 00:00 Tools
Move 00:00 Tools
Spring Is Here 00:00 Tools
For Real - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The Shadow Of Your Smile 00:00 Tools
Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Will You Still Be Mine? 00:00 Tools
Bach 00:00 Tools
Blues for Bud 00:00 Tools
Blues of a Sort 00:00 Tools
Children's Play 00:00 Tools
Blues #3 00:00 Tools
Black Forest 00:00 Tools
josie black 00:00 Tools
Oleo 00:00 Tools
Bag's Groove 00:00 Tools
Cheryl 00:00 Tools
Buzzy - Live 00:00 Tools
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho 00:00 Tools
don't pass me by 00:00 Tools
Manha de Carnaval 00:00 Tools
Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho 00:00 Tools
Hamp's Paws 00:00 Tools
Pablito 00:00 Tools
They Say It's Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Terrible T 00:00 Tools
The Camel 00:00 Tools
Crazeology 00:00 Tools
Killing Me Softly with His Song 00:00 Tools
When the Roll Is Called up Yonder 00:00 Tools
Sonoro 00:00 Tools
Blue In Green 00:00 Tools
Pink Peaches 00:00 Tools
Crazeology (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Soul Sign Eight 00:00 Tools
It Could Happen to You 00:00 Tools
Playin' In The Yard 00:00 Tools
Groovin’ High 00:00 Tools
All The Things You Are - Live 00:00 Tools
Fanfare 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jacques 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) 00:00 Tools
Black Forest (Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Bud's Blues - Live 00:00 Tools
Nice Meanderings 00:00 Tools
j.b.'s mind 00:00 Tools
The Girl From Ipanema 00:00 Tools
Blues N/C 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To 00:00 Tools
C&H Sugar 00:00 Tools
Searchin' 00:00 Tools
Once In a While 00:00 Tools
Young People's Tune 00:00 Tools
Morning 00:00 Tools
Time Remembered 00:00 Tools
Diablo's Dance 00:00 Tools
When I Grow Too Old to Dream 00:00 Tools
Godchild 00:00 Tools
Little Miss Laurie 00:00 Tools
Rhonda 00:00 Tools
Double Trouble 00:00 Tools
Blue Bird - Live 00:00 Tools
Clementine 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jacque 00:00 Tools
BD&DS Blues 00:00 Tools
Three For Two 00:00 Tools
People 00:00 Tools
Drums for Peace/Love Is Better 00:00 Tools
Where or When 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 00:00 Tools
Dear Heart 00:00 Tools
Carmel 00:00 Tools
The Days Of Wine and Roses 00:00 Tools
What Kind of Fool Am I? 00:00 Tools
Blues 3 00:00 Tools
De De 00:00 Tools
Walking Around The Town 00:00 Tools
THIS GUY'S IN LOVE WITH YOU 00:00 Tools
Blues For Walls 00:00 Tools
High in the Sky 00:00 Tools
Spanish Mood 00:00 Tools
Blue 'n Boogie 00:00 Tools
Chim Chim Cher-ee 00:00 Tools
What a Difference a Day Makes - Live 00:00 Tools
St. Thomas - Live 00:00 Tools
Footprints 00:00 Tools
Blues 4 00:00 Tools
My Funny Valentine 00:00 Tools
Blue Bird 00:00 Tools
Carson Blues 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love - Live 00:00 Tools
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most 00:00 Tools
Spanish Way 00:00 Tools
The Shadows Of Your Smile 00:00 Tools
What's New? 00:00 Tools
Tokyo Blues 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jacque - Live 00:00 Tools
Spanish Steps (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Dexter's Deck 00:00 Tools
Another Air Do - Live 00:00 Tools
Hawes Paws - Live 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April - Live 00:00 Tools
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm - Live 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Live 00:00 Tools
Rain Forest 00:00 Tools
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me 00:00 Tools
Night and Day 00:00 Tools
The Web 00:00 Tools
Hampton’s Pulpit 00:00 Tools
Takin’ Care 00:00 Tools
I’ll Remember April 00:00 Tools
Sun Dance 00:00 Tools
MC by Joe Segal 00:00 Tools
It's You or No One - Live 00:00 Tools
Lover Come Back To Me 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm - Live 00:00 Tools
Brother Brantley 00:00 Tools
Hip (feat. Harold Land) 00:00 Tools
Broad Blue Acres 00:00 Tools
Where or When - Live 00:00 Tools
Just One of Those Things - Live 00:00 Tools
Playin' in the Yard [Live] 00:00 Tools
Hamp's Collard Green Blues 00:00 Tools
Woody’n You 00:00 Tools
Blue ‘n’ Boogie 00:00 Tools
Spanish Girl 00:00 Tools
Double Trouble [Live] 00:00 Tools
Key for Two 00:00 Tools
JB's Mind 00:00 Tools
Blues Skies 00:00 Tools
drums for peace 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another Yo 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Me-ho 00:00 Tools
Again - Live 00:00 Tools
Shinjuku 00:00 Tools
How High the Moon - Live 00:00 Tools
Pink Peaches [Live] 00:00 Tools
Hip (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Evening Trane 00:00 Tools
Muffin Man 00:00 Tools
Blue Hamp / Blue Bird 00:00 Tools
Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea 00:00 Tools
Back Home Blues 00:00 Tools
Woody 'n You 00:00 Tools
De De [Live] 00:00 Tools
Black Forrest 00:00 Tools
Spring Can Really Hang You The Most 00:00 Tools
Awful Truth, The - (bonus track) 00:00 Tools
Crazeology (Little Bennie) [feat. Harold Land] 00:00 Tools
Look of Love 00:00 Tools
Days of Wine and Roses 00:00 Tools
the theme 00:00 Tools
Numbers Game (feat. Harold Land) 00:00 Tools
love is better 00:00 Tools
It’s You Or No One 00:00 Tools
Black Forest (take 1) 00:00 Tools
For Real (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
G. K. Blues 00:00 Tools
Between The Devil And The Deep 00:00 Tools
Stella by Starlight [Live] 00:00 Tools
Greensleeves 00:00 Tools
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From 00:00 Tools
Hampton Hawes - The Challenge 00:00 Tools
Five Spot 00:00 Tools
BD & DS Blues - Live 00:00 Tools
Two Bass Hit (feat. Jim Hall) 00:00 Tools
Another Hair Do 00:00 Tools
How High The Moon 00:00 Tools
Hampton Pulpit 00:00 Tools
Blue Bird Blue Hamp 00:00 Tools
Fly Me To The Moon - Live 00:00 Tools
Jordu (feat. Jim Hall) 00:00 Tools
All the Thing You Are 00:00 Tools
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You 00:00 Tools
Sunny - Live 00:00 Tools
Fly Me to the Moon (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Again 00:00 Tools
April in Paris (feat. Jim Hall) 00:00 Tools
Pablito - Live 00:00 Tools
I Love You (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
The Champ 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) [Remastered 2015] 00:00 Tools
For Real (feat. Harold Land) 00:00 Tools
No Crooks 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things - Remind Me of You 00:00 Tools
Bud's Blues 00:00 Tools
Numbers Game (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
coolin the blues 00:00 Tools
Donna Lee 00:00 Tools
Spanish Steps(Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Hamp's New Blues 00:00 Tools
Laura 00:00 Tools
South Hampton 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love) (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
The Hunt, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Groovin High 00:00 Tools
What A Difference A Day Made 00:00 Tools
I Love You (feat. Harold Land) 00:00 Tools
Feelin' Fine (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April (1953) 00:00 Tools
Hamp's Blues (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Ronnie's Tune 00:00 Tools
Pennies From Heaven 00:00 Tools
Spanish Ships 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Moods 00:00 Tools
Crazeology (Little Benny) 00:00 Tools
Blues the Most (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Black Forest (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Children's Play [#] 00:00 Tools
Hip (feat. Harold Land, Scott Lafaro & Frank Butler) 00:00 Tools
Villingen Blues 00:00 Tools
Lyriste 00:00 Tools
Takin Care 00:00 Tools
Roc and Troll 00:00 Tools
The Hunt, Part 1 00:00 Tools
So in Love (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Broad Blues Acres 00:00 Tools
Hamp's Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Bernie's Tune 00:00 Tools
Bluebird 00:00 Tools
The Squirrel 00:00 Tools
The Sermon (Los Angeles, January 25, 1956) 00:00 Tools
Blues for Bud [#] 00:00 Tools
As Long As There's Music 00:00 Tools
Where Is Love 00:00 Tools
You and the Night 00:00 Tools
Blues, No. 4 00:00 Tools
They Say It's Wonderful [#] 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' Jaque 00:00 Tools
Rhyhm 00:00 Tools
Blue'n Boogie 00:00 Tools
Autmn In New York 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
Nice Meanderings - Live 00:00 Tools
Stella by Starlight (Los Angeles, December 3, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Steeplechase - Remastered 00:00 Tools
This Guy In Love With You 00:00 Tools
Pink Peaches (Montreux live '73) 00:00 Tools
Easy Living (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Hamp's Broad Bluie Acres 00:00 Tools
A-Drift 00:00 Tools
Sunny (Live) 00:00 Tools
Keen And Peachy 00:00 Tools
Carioca (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Autumn in New York - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Steeplechase (Los Angeles, December 3, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Jumpin Jacques 00:00 Tools
Hawes paws 00:00 Tools
Holiday Flight 00:00 Tools
Do Nothin Till You Hear from Me 00:00 Tools
Blues, No. 3 00:00 Tools
You And The Night And The Music (あなたと夜と音楽を) 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Jackie 00:00 Tools
BD & DS Blues 00:00 Tools
Get Happy 00:00 Tools
Hampton Hawes - Web 00:00 Tools
When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love 00:00 Tools
Tokyo Blues (Hawes) 00:00 Tools
Swing Low Sweet Chariot 00:00 Tools
Blues for Jacque (Los Angeles, January 25, 1956) 00:00 Tools
Blues the Most - Remastered 00:00 Tools
So in Love - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Wave 00:00 Tools
Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) 00:00 Tools
Playin' In The Yard (Montreux live '73) 00:00 Tools
Waltz For Debby (ワルツ・フォー・デビィ) 00:00 Tools
An Intro (Live) 00:00 Tools
Takin' A Chance On Love 00:00 Tools
This Guys In Love With You (Live) 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
The Look Of Love 00:00 Tools
Spanish Steps [Take 1][#] 00:00 Tools
Black Forest [Take 1][#] 00:00 Tools
My Man 00:00 Tools
As Long As She Needs Me 00:00 Tools
Ill Remember April 00:00 Tools
Old Devil Moon 00:00 Tools
Stella by Starlight (Live) 00:00 Tools
Numbers Game (feat. Harold Land, Scott Lafaro & Frank Butler) 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
What's New (J. Burke-B. Haggart) 00:00 Tools
It Could Happen To You (J.Burke-J. V. Heusen) 00:00 Tools
Fly Me To The Moon (Live) 00:00 Tools
Surf Ride 00:00 Tools
Double Trouble (Montreux live '73) 00:00 Tools
C and H Sugar 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Don't Go (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Love You [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Polka Dots 00:00 Tools
Night in Tunesia 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays (1956) 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays (1957) 00:00 Tools
The Music That Makes Me Dance 00:00 Tools
All The Things You Are (Los Angeles, June 28, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Thou Swell (Additional Track) 00:00 Tools
Autumn in New York (Los Angeles, December 3, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays (Los Angeles, December 3, 1955) 00:00 Tools
A Night in Tunisia - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Summertime (G. Gershiwn) 00:00 Tools
Dont Pass Me By 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Blues Of A Sort" 00:00 Tools
Love Is Just Around the Corner (feat. Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell) 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Two Base Hit 00:00 Tools
Numbers Game [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
The Awful Truth (Additional Track) 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease) 00:00 Tools
Thou Swell - (bonus track) 00:00 Tools
St Thomas 00:00 Tools
Blue and Green 00:00 Tools
You and the Night and the Music (Los Angeles, January 25, 1956) 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves (J. Mercer-J. Kosma) 00:00 Tools
Sermon 00:00 Tools
My Romance (L. Hart-R. Rodgers) 00:00 Tools
Just One of Those Things (C. Porter) 00:00 Tools
Woody And You 00:00 Tools
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Stella By Starlight - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Easy Living - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Blue 'n Boogey 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind M 00:00 Tools
Walkin' 00:00 Tools
Drums for Peace - Love Is Better 00:00 Tools
Body & Soul 00:00 Tools
I Can' t Get Started 00:00 Tools
Irene 00:00 Tools
Nice Meanderings (part 1) 00:00 Tools
Dede 00:00 Tools
Blue N Boogie 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
They Say It’S Wonderful 00:00 Tools
How Are Things In Glocca Morra 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've 00:00 Tools
When The Roll Is Called Up Yon 00:00 Tools
Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Los Angeles, January 25, 1956) 00:00 Tools
This Is Called Love 00:00 Tools
Lover, Come Back to Me (Los Angeles, January 25, 1956) 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April (1958) 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Section Blues (Los Angeles, December 3, 1955) 00:00 Tools
Buzzy (Live) 00:00 Tools
I've Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Sonorama 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
03 Hampton Hawes - Web 00:00 Tools
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Carioca - Remastered 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are - Remastered 00:00 Tools
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De De (Montreux live '73) 00:00 Tools
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Hampton Hawes (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977) was an American bebop and hard-bop jazz pianist, recognized as one of the finest and most influential of the 1950s. Hampton Barnett Hawes, Jr. was born November 13, 1928 in Los Angeles, California. His father, Hampton Hawes, Sr., was minister of Westminster Presbysterian Church in Los Angeles. His mother, the former Gertrude Holman, was Westminster's church pianist. Hawes' first experience with the piano was as a toddler sitting on his mother's lap while she practiced. He was reportedly able to pick out fairly complex tunes by the age of three. Entirely self-taught, by his teens Hawes was playing with the leading jazz musicians on the West Coast, including Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, and Teddy Edwards. His second professional job, at 19, was playing for eight months with the Howard McGhee Quintet at the Hi De Ho Club, in a group that included Charlie Parker. After serving in the U.S. army in Japan from 1952–1954, Hawes formed his own Hampton Hawes Trio, with the bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Chuck Thompson. The three-record Trio sessions made by this group in 1955 on Contemporary Records were considered some of the finest records to come out of the West Coast at the time. The next year, Hawes added guitarist Jim Hall for the All Night Sessions - three records made during a non-stop recording session at the Contemporary Studios in Los Angeles. After a six-month national tour in 1956, Hawes won the 'New Star of the Year' award in Down Beat magazine, and 'Arrival of the Year' in Metronome magazine. The following year, Hawes recorded in New York City with Charles Mingus on the album "Mingus Three" (Jubilee JLP 1054, 1957). Struggling for many years with a heroin addiction, Hawes became the target of a federal undercover operation in Los Angeles in 1958. The Drug Enforcement Agency bargained that Hawes would inform on suppliers in L.A. rather than risk a successful music career. Hawes was arrested on heroin charges on his 30th birthday, but refused to cooperate, and was sentenced to ten years in a federal prison hospital - twice the mandatory minimum. In the weeks between his trial and sentencing, Hawes recorded an album of spirituals and gospel songs, The Sermon, for Contemporary Records. After serving three years at Fort Worth Federal Medical Facility in Texas, in 1961 Hawes was watching President Kennedy's inaugural speech on television, when he became convinced that Kennedy would pardon him. In an almost miraculous turn, President Kennedy granted Hawes Executive Clemency in 1963, the 42nd of only 43 such pardons given in the final year of Kennedy's presidency. After his release from prison, Hawes resumed playing and recording. During a world tour in 1967-68, the pianist was surprised to discover that he had become a legend among jazz listeners overseas. During a ten-month tour of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Hawes recorded nine albums, played sold out shows and concert halls in ten countries, and was covered widely in the press, appearing on European television and radio. Raise Up Off Me, Hawes' autobiography, written with Don Asher and published in 1974, shed light on his heroin addiction, the bebop movement, and his friendships with some of the leading jazz musicians of his time. The book won the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music writing in 1975. Critic Gary Giddins, who wrote the book's introduction, calls Raise Up Off Me "a major contribution to the literature of jazz." The Penguin Guide to Jazz cites it as "one of the most moving memoirs ever written by a musician, and a classic of jazz writing." In the 1970s, Hawes experimented with electronic music (Fender-Rhodes made a special instrument for him), although eventually he returned to playing the acoustic piano. As a pianist Hawes' style is instantly recognizable - for its almost unparalleled swing, unique approach to time and harmony, and its depth of emotional expression, particularly in a blues context. Hawes influenced a great number of prominent pianists, including André Previn, Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver, Claude Williamson, Pete Jolly, Toshiko Akiyoshi and others. Hawes' own influences came from a number of sources, including the gospel music and spirituals he heard in his father's church as a child, and the boogie-woogie piano of Earl Hines. He also learned much from pianists Bud Powell and Nat King Cole among others. By Hawes' own account, however, his principal source of influence was his friend Charlie Parker. Hampton Hawes died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage in 1977, at only 48 years old. He is buried next to his father, Hampton Hawes, Sr., who had died just five months earlier, at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. In 2004, the City Council of Los Angeles passed a resolution declaring November 13 'Hampton Hawes Day' throughout the City of Los Angeles. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.