Elmo Hope – Best of Elmo Hope (2025) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Elmo Hope – Best of Elmo Hope (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:35:40 minutes | 2,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
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St. Elmo Sylvester Hope (June 27, 1923 – May 19, 1967) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, chiefly in the bebop and hard bop genres. He grew up playing and listening to jazz and classical music with Bud Powell, and both were close friends of another influential pianist, Thelonious Monk.

Hope survived being shot by police as a youth to become a New York-based musician who recorded with several emerging stars in the early to mid-1950s, including trumpeter Clifford Brown, and saxophonists John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Jackie McLean, and Sonny Rollins. A long-term heroin user, Hope had his license to perform in New York’s clubs withdrawn after a drug conviction, so he moved to Los Angeles in 1957. He was not happy during his four years on the West Coast, but had some successful collaborations there, including with saxophonist Harold Land.

More recordings as leader ensued following Hope’s return to New York, but they did little to gain him more public or critical attention. Further drug and health problems reduced the frequency of his public performances, which ended a year before his death, at the age of 43. He remains little known, despite, or because of, the individuality of his playing and composing, which were complex and stressed subtlety and variation rather than the virtuosity predominant in bebop.

Tracklist:

1-1. Elmo Hope – Blue Mo (Remastered) (06:40)
1-2. Elmo Hope – Abdullah (Remastered) (03:44)
1-3. Elmo Hope – Falling in Love with Love (Remastered) (02:56)
1-4. Elmo Hope – Freffie (Remastered) (03:37)
1-5. Elmo Hope – Fosterity (Remastered) (06:13)
1-6. Elmo Hope – De Dah (Remastered) (04:25)
1-7. Elmo Hope – Crazy (Remastered) (04:14)
1-8. Elmo Hope – Georgia on My Mind (Remastered) (06:37)
1-9. Elmo Hope – Happy Hour (Remastered) (04:03)
1-10. Elmo Hope – Stars over Marakesh (Remastered) (06:43)
1-11. Elmo Hope – The Fox (Remastered) (05:31)
1-12. Elmo Hope – Wail, Frank, Wail (Remastered) (06:24)
1-13. Elmo Hope – Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Remastered) (08:36)
1-14. Elmo Hope – Quit It (Remastered) (04:24)
1-15. Elmo Hope – Weeja (Remastered) (11:07)
1-16. Elmo Hope – When the Groove Is Low (Remastered) (04:57)
1-17. Elmo Hope – Shutout (Remastered) (05:48)
1-18. Elmo Hope – One Second, Please (Remastered) (05:47)
1-19. Elmo Hope – One Down (Remastered) (07:21)
1-20. Elmo Hope – Yaho (Remastered) (07:37)
1-21. Elmo Hope – Zarou (Remastered) (05:12)
1-22. Elmo Hope – Lucky Strike (Remastered) (02:52)
1-23. Elmo Hope – Maybe So (Remastered) (04:36)
1-24. Elmo Hope – Mo Is On (Remastered) (04:28)
1-25. Elmo Hope – My Heart Stood Still (Remastered) (03:21)
1-26. Elmo Hope – On It (Remastered) (09:01)
1-27. Elmo Hope – It’s a Lovely Day Today (Remastered) (03:38)
1-28. Elmo Hope – Little Chris (Remastered) (05:06)
1-29. Elmo Hope – Mirror Mind Rose (Remastered) (06:29)
1-30. Elmo Hope – Moe’s Bluff (Remastered) (04:19)
1-31. Elmo Hope – I’m in the Mood for Love (Remastered) (04:25)
1-32. Elmo Hope – I Don’t Stand (A Ghost of a Chance with You) (Remastered) (04:54)
1-33. Elmo Hope – Sims a Plenty (Remastered) (06:14)
1-34. Elmo Hope – Chips (Remastered) (04:55)
1-35. Elmo Hope – Huh (Remastered) (03:46)
1-36. Elmo Hope – Hot Sauce (Remastered) (03:32)
1-37. Elmo Hope – Barfly (Remastered) (06:14)
1-38. Elmo Hope – Elmo’s Fire (Remastered) (02:38)
1-39. Elmo Hope – Avalon (Remastered) (09:36)
1-40. Elmo Hope – All the Things You Are (Remastered) (03:21)

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