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Have You Met Hank Jones

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Released
  
1956

Release date
  
1956

Label
  
Savoy Records

Artist
  
Hank Jones

Producer
  
Ozzie Cadena

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
July 9 and August 8 & 20, 1956 Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey

Have You Met Hank Jones (1956)
  
Hank Jones' Quartet (1956)

Similar
  
Hank Jones albums, Jazz albums

Have You Met Hank Jones (also released as Hank Jones Solo Piano) is a solo album by American jazz pianist Hank Jones recorded in 1956 for the Savoy label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic stated "Despite being a strong two-handed pianist falling into the transition between swing and bop, Jones tends to sound more swinging in a trio format, although these melodic and sometimes rhapsodic solos are also reasonably enjoyable".

Track listing

  1. "It Had To Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 3:12
  2. "Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) - 3:14
  3. "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:23
  4. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:50
  5. "Kankakee Shout" (Hank Jones) - 3:10
  6. "Body & Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) - 3:37
  7. "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) - 2:28
  8. "Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 3:15
  9. "Teddy's Dream" (Teddy Von Seele) - 3:05
  10. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:12
  11. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 4:08
  12. "Solo Blues" (Jones) - 4:51

Personnel

  • Hank Jones - piano

    • References

    Have You Met Hank Jones Wikipedia
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