Hope Meets Foster

Hope Meets Foster is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope and saxophonist Frank Foster recorded in 1955 for the Prestige label.[1]

Hope Meets Foster
Studio album by
Released1955
RecordedOctober 4, 1955
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack
GenreJazz
Length38:11
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7021
ProducerBob Weinstock
Elmo Hope chronology
Meditations
(1955)
Hope Meets Foster
(1955)
Informal Jazz
(1956)
Frank Foster chronology
Here Comes Frank Foster
(1953)
Hope Meets Foster
(1955)
No 'Count
(1956)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "nothing that innovative occurs but the music should please bop fans".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Elmo Hope except where noted

  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

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References

  1. Prestige Records discography accessed August 20, 2012
  2. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 20, 2012
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 723. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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