''John Hicks'' is an album led by the eponymous pianist, recorded in 1982.

Recording and music

The album was recorded at Different Fur Studios, San Francisco, in May 1982."John Hicks Catalog"
jazzdisco.org. Retrieved July 11, 2017. "This album has four trio numbers with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and bassist Walter Booker, a trio of unaccompanied piano solos, and a piano duet version of the leader's 'After the Morning' which teams Hicks with his wife Olympia."Yanow, Scot
"John Hicks – John Hicks"
Retrieved July 11, 2017.

Releases

''John Hicks'' was released by

Theresa Records Theresa Records was a jazz record company and label established in 1975 by Allen Pittman and B. Kazuko Ishida in El Cerrito, California. Its catalogue included Pharoah Sanders, George Coleman, and John Hicks. In the early 1990s Evidence Music bo ...

. It was reissued by

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with "Beantown Blues", also from May 1982, added.

Track listing

Original release

#"Pas De Trois (Dance for Three)" #"Steadfast" #"For John Chapman" #"Star-Crossed Lovers" #"Littlest One of All" #"After the Morning" #"That Ole Devil Called Love" #"Gypsy Folk Tales"

Reissue

For the reissue, one track was added to the eight on the original album: #

"Beantown Blues"

Personnel

John Hicks Sir John Richards Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economic ...

– piano *

Bobby Hutcherson Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note album '' Components'', is one of his best-known compositions.Huey, Steve. "Components – Bob ...

– vibraphone (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8) *Olympia Hicks – piano (tracks 6, 9) *

Walter Booker Walter Booker (December 17, 1933 – November 24, 2006) was an American jazz musician. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and ...

– bass (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8) *

Idris Muhammad Idris Muhammad ( ar, إدريس محمد; born Leo Morris; November 13, 1939 – July 29, 2014) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He had an extensive career performing jazz, funk, R&B, and soul music and recorded with musicians such a ...

– drums (track 9)

References

{{John Hicks (pianist) John Hicks (jazz pianist) albums Theresa Records albums