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Trio and Quintet is an album by jazz pianist Elmo Hope which compiles sessions recorded in 1953, originally released as a 10″ LP titled Elmo Hope Trio, and 1954, originally released as a 10″ LP titled Elmo Hope Quintet, Volume 2, for the Blue Note label along with a session from 1957 originally released on Pacific Jazz as part of a 1962 LP release shared with a Jazz Messengers reissue.

Track listing:
All compositions by Elmo Hope except as indicated

“It’s a Lovely Day Today” (Irving Berlin) – 2:47
“Mo Is On” – 2:50
“Sweet and Lovely” (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 2:59
“Happy Hour” – 2:52
“Hot Sauce” – 3:53
“Stars Over Marrakech” – 3:06
“Freffie” – 3:05
“Carvin’ the Rock” (Hope, Sonny Rollins) – 2:55
“I Remember You” (Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer, Mark Fisher) – 2:46
“Mo Is On” [alternate take] – 2:51
“Crazy” – 4:17
“Abdullah” – 3:48
“Chips” – 3:35
“Later for You” – 4:01
“Low Tide” – 4:12
“Maybe So” – 4:24
“Crazy” [alternate take] – 4:23
“So Nice” – 6:08
“St. Elmo’s Fire” – 5:56
“Vaun Ex” – 4:45

Recorded at Van Gelder Studion in Hackensack, New Jersey on June 18, 1953 (tracks 1-10) and May 9, 1954 (tracks 11-17) and in Los Angeles on October 31, 1957 (tracks 18-20)

Personnel:
Elmo Hope – piano
Charles Freeman Lee (tracks 11-17), Stu Williamson (tracks 18-20) – trumpet
Frank Foster (tracks 11-17) Harold Land (tracks 18-20) – tenor saxophone
Percy Heath (tracks 1-17), Leroy Vinnegar (tracks 18-20) – bass
Art Blakey (tracks 11-17), Philly Joe Jones (tracks 1-10), Frank Butler (tracks 18-20) – drums

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Released: 1989
Recorded: June 18, 1953, May 9, 1954 and October 31, 1957
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack (1953-54) and Los Angeles (1957)
Length: 74:32
CD reissue
Label: Blue Note
BNP 11498
Producer: Alfred Lion and Richard Bock