Lionel Hampton Bye Bye Blues - Lionel Hampton, Bennett, David Someday My Prince Will Come - Lionel Hampton, Churchill, Frank Take the 'A' Train - Lionel Hampton, Strayhorn, Billy Blues for Jazz Beaux - Lionel Hampton, Walkin' Uptown - Lionel Hampton, Mostly Blues - Lionel Hampton, Gone with the Wind - Lionel Hampton, Magidson, Herbert
Reviewed on 1/28/2007... Picture on front is different - but same track listings. Played it once. 1 of 1 member(s) found this review helpful. CD Reviews Samuel Chell | 12/18/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "No doubt this unnoticed, out-of-print session is languishing in scattered CD cut-out bins. But if you find a copy, grab it up--in fact, better make it several. Along with Hamp's fabled "Stardust" Concert (1947) this late Hampton entry deserves a place in anybody's record collection. "Mostly Blues" is a moody, mesmerizing session that hits an uncharacteristic groove for Lionel--more modern than swing era, more simmering than sizzling, more seductive than showy. Hampton goes for a Milt Jackson slow-vibrato sound and lets up on the technique and showmanship. Deserving an equal amount of credit is pianist Bobby Scott, heard here for one of the last times before cancer led to his premature death. He's an exceptional, hard-swinging, "blowing" piano player, and he makes the most of each of his turns, contributing solos that are gritty, incisive, always high-spirited--a perfect complement to the more deliberate and delayed attack of the vibes. And as for his comping, the man's a veritable funk machine, a combination of Horace Silver's chord voicings and Bernard Purdie's infectious beat.