Tragic. This album is very good, but it captures the tragedy of life. The liner notes on the back of the album is a transcription of a conversation between Hampton and Lester Koenig in 1977. Hampton died on May 22nd and Lester Koenig died on November 21.
The album cover is stark. Hampton is looking downward, forlorn, almost as if he knows time is running out.
The music on the album is very high quality. Ray Brown on Bass and Shelly Manne on drums. The music they play is wonderful; I saw "Killing Me Softly With His Song" on this (another foreboding allusion), which my generation knows all so well from Lauryn Hill and the Fugees.
Sunny is a real highlight (very funky)
This is a great trio record that reminds me a lot of the Keith Jarrett trio records (with Motian and Haden) of which, I am very fond. It's time to flip the record!
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