For me, Hampton Hawes's finest recordings were the three All Night Session! albums captured on the evening of November 12, 1956 and the early morning hours of November 13. The studio date for Contemporary Records featured Hawes (p), Jim Hall (g), Red Mitchell (b) and Bruz Freeman (d). According to Hawes in his autobiography, Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait …
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