Listening Guide

Hampton Hawes Trio All the Things You Are (1955) (Jerome Kern)

0:00Solo piano intro played rubato, with a good sense of time

0:40Melody becomes more embellished with fast arpeggios and scales

1:26plays an introduction to the swing time beginning, sets up the rhythm; left hand chords are very rhythmic and complimentary to right hand lines.

1:52 uses a pedal point to move into the bridge

2:19 Solo break using chromatic tones as grace notes

2:21Continues to swing heavily

2:40Pushes three quarter notes into half bars, uses varied rhythmic approaches to lines

3:50Block chords, building tension in dynamics

4:27Plays whole-tone scale in thirds, outlining the harmony direction

4:43Uses traditional intro as an outro, but changes the bass motion, end with a fast bright arpeggio/scale.