Stan Hope

Stan Hope (born July 10, 1933 in Atlantic City ) is an American jazz pianist.

Hope grew up in Atlantic City ; early musical role models were the Count Basie Orchestra , which performed in town, and the pianist Erroll Garner . Hope took piano lessons from his mother when he was ten years old. In 1949 he started his music career and played a. a. with Coleman Hawkins , Hank Mobley , Lorez Alexandria , Johnny Hartman, and Hank Crawford ; he also appeared in New York clubs such as Birdland, Village Vanguard and Blue Note . In 1972 he recorded a first album for Mainstream Records . In the mid-1980s he became the accompanist for the singer Etta Jones and played in the band of the tenor saxophonist Houston Person , with whom he recorded several albums. Person also worked on Hope's album under his own name on the Savant label ( Pastels , 1999); other musicians were Ray Drummond and Kenny Washington . In December 2004 a second album followed with the same line-up ( Put On a Happy Face ).

Hope's style mixes influences from Erroll Garner and Bud Powell .

Discographic notes

Albums under your own name

• Pastels (Savant Records, 1999)
• Put On a Happy Face (Savant, 2005)

Albums as a sideman

• Hank Crawford: South Central (Milestone, 1990-92)
• Teddy Edwards: Close Encounters (High Note, 1999)
• Etta Jones: I'll be Seeing You (Muse, 1987), Sugar (Muse, 1989)
• Houston Person: The Talk of the Town (Muse, 1987), Basics (Muse, 1987)
• Houston Person: Social Call (High Note, 2003); To Etta with Love (High Note, 2004)

swell

• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 9th edition. Penguin, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0 .

Web links

• Stan Hope at Allmusic , by Dave Nathan