Elmo Hope Trio: Meditations

AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow

This decent bop session features tenor-saxophonist Frank Foster and pianist Elmo Hope in a quintet with the forgotten trumpeter Freeman Lee (who is on three of the six songs), bassist John Ore and drummer Art Taylor. They perform three of Hope's originals, two by Foster and an uptempo version of "Georgia on My Mind." None of the originals caught on (when was the last time anyone played "Fosterity"?) and nothing that innovative occurs but the music should please bop fans.

 Meditations (also released as Elmo Hope Memorial Album) is an album by American jazz pianist Elmo Hope recorded in 1955 for the Prestige label.^[1]

Track listing 

All compositions by Elmo Hope except as indicated

1. "It's a Lovely Day Today" (Irving Berlin) - 2:56
2. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 3:38
3. "Quit It" - 2:53
4. "Lucky Strike" - 2:38
5. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 3:22
6. "Huh" - 4:55
7. "Falling in Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:24
8. "My Heart Stood Still" (Hart, Rodgers) - 3:46
9. "Elmo's Fire" - 6:40
10. "I'm in the Mood for Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 3:22
11. "Blue Mo" - 4:24

Personnel 

• Elmo Hope - piano
• John Ore - bass
• Willie Jones - drums

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