In 1957, pianist Elmo Hope moved from New York to Los Angeles. He had little choice. His cabaret license had been suspended following a drug conviction, and the only place where he had musician friends and the prospect of work playing was on the West Coast. As Leonard Feather remarks in his 1970 liner notes for a reissue one of Hope's finest recordings,
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