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Hope Meets Foster

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Released
  
1955

Release date
  
1955

Label
  
Prestige Records

Hope Meets Foster (1955)
  
Informal Jazz (1956)

Producer
  
Bob Weinstock

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
October 4, 1955 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack

Artists
  
Elmo Hope, Elmo Hope Quartet, Elmo Hope Quintet

Similar
  
Elmo Hope albums, Jazz albums

Hope Meets Foster is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope and saxophonist Frank Foster recorded in 1955 for the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "nothing that innovative occurs but the music should please bop fans".

Track listing

All compositions by Elmo Hope except as indicated

  1. "Wail, Frank, Wail" - 6:28
  2. "Zarou" (Frank Foster, Hope) - 5:16
  3. "Fosterity" (Foster) - 6:17
  4. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 6:41
  5. "Shutout" (Foster) - 5:51
  6. "Yaho" - 7:38

Personnel

  • Frank Foster - tenor saxophone
  • Elmo Hope - piano
  • John Ore - bass
  • Art Taylor - drums
  • Charles Freeman Lee - trumpet (tracks 2, 3 & 5)

    • Songs

    1Wail - Frank - WailFrank Foster6:25
    2ZarouFrank Foster5:12
    3FosterityFrank Foster6:14

    References

    Hope Meets Foster Wikipedia
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