John Hicks

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Hicks' Time 00:00 Tools
April Eyes 00:00 Tools
Naomi's Love Song 00:00 Tools
Peanut Butter 00:00 Tools
Redd's Blues 00:00 Tools
Steadfast 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly 00:00 Tools
After The Morning 00:00 Tools
Jingle Bell Rock 00:00 Tools
Chelsea Bridge 00:00 Tools
Passion Flower 00:00 Tools
Never Let Me Go 00:00 Tools
Jest A Little 00:00 Tools
Jingle Blues 00:00 Tools
After the Morning 00:00 Tools
Almost Spring 00:00 Tools
Lush Life 00:00 Tools
Once I Loved 00:00 Tools
How Insensitive 00:00 Tools
Infant Eyes 00:00 Tools
Rosetta 00:00 Tools
Reminds Me 00:00 Tools
Daydream 00:00 Tools
Minor Meeting 00:00 Tools
A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing 00:00 Tools
Nightwind 00:00 Tools
My Monday Date 00:00 Tools
One Peaceful Moment 00:00 Tools
Remember Earl And Marva 00:00 Tools
Sonymoon For Two 00:00 Tools
Blood Count 00:00 Tools
Something to Live For 00:00 Tools
Two Heart Beats 00:00 Tools
Reflections 00:00 Tools
Misty 00:00 Tools
The Things We Did Last Summer 00:00 Tools
Cable Car 00:00 Tools
You Can Depend on Me 00:00 Tools
Is That So 00:00 Tools
Naima's Love Song 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Crib 00:00 Tools
Peace 00:00 Tools
Fatha's Bedtime Story 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April 00:00 Tools
Serenata 00:00 Tools
Solitaire 00:00 Tools
A Sonny Day 00:00 Tools
After the Rain 00:00 Tools
I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry 00:00 Tools
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 00:00 Tools
All of You 00:00 Tools
Sunset Blues 00:00 Tools
Heart to Heart 00:00 Tools
SoftLy as in a Morning Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Yemenja 00:00 Tools
Duke Ellington's Sound of Love 00:00 Tools
Contemplation 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Pocket Full of Blues 00:00 Tools
Mind Wine 00:00 Tools
Night Journey 00:00 Tools
Emily 00:00 Tools
My Conception 00:00 Tools
I Deal 00:00 Tools
Not Just Your Blues 00:00 Tools
Speak Low 00:00 Tools
Hells Bells 00:00 Tools
Something Happens 00:00 Tools
Sometime Ago 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Blue in Green 00:00 Tools
Clark Bar Blues 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Mood 00:00 Tools
Hicks Tone 00:00 Tools
Sonny's Ballad 00:00 Tools
After the Dawn 00:00 Tools
Avojca 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning 00:00 Tools
A Child Is Born 00:00 Tools
Ghosts of Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Yes or No 00:00 Tools
Littlest One Of All 00:00 Tools
Left Bank Swing 00:00 Tools
Dreamy 00:00 Tools
Ballad For Mary Lou 00:00 Tools
That Ole Devil Called Love 00:00 Tools
Angies Tune 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Pocket 00:00 Tools
Mambo Influenciado 00:00 Tools
Sonny Side Up 00:00 Tools
Heroes 00:00 Tools
Is That So? 00:00 Tools
Angel With a Briefcase 00:00 Tools
Star-Crossed Lovers 00:00 Tools
Ballad of a Black Man 00:00 Tools
Portraits 00:00 Tools
Straighten Up and Fly Right 00:00 Tools
Sweet Love Of Mine 00:00 Tools
Blues for Maybeck Recital Hall 00:00 Tools
Single Petal of a Rose 00:00 Tools
Epistrophy 00:00 Tools
My Conception - Prelude (Attacca) 00:00 Tools
I Want To Talk About You 00:00 Tools
For John Chapman 00:00 Tools
Satin Doll 00:00 Tools
Topaz 00:00 Tools
Once in a While 00:00 Tools
Oblivion 00:00 Tools
Minor Collaboration 00:00 Tools
Pas de Trois (Dance for Three) 00:00 Tools
Peanut Butter Two 00:00 Tools
The Wandering Soul 00:00 Tools
Peace for E.H. 00:00 Tools
Fly Little Bird Fly 00:00 Tools
Nutty 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford 00:00 Tools
Synopsis 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Paris Cries 00:00 Tools
Peanut Butter in the Desert 00:00 Tools
Sweet and Lovely 00:00 Tools
No More Regrets 00:00 Tools
Turn Out the Stars 00:00 Tools
Twelve Bars for Linton 00:00 Tools
Two For You 00:00 Tools
UPPER MANHATTAN MEDICAL GROUP 00:00 Tools
Bop Scotch 00:00 Tools
Two Heartbeats 00:00 Tools
Old Time Spiritual 00:00 Tools
Virgo 00:00 Tools
Hold It Down 00:00 Tools
Gypsy Folk Tales 00:00 Tools
Tribute To EG 00:00 Tools
Mary Lou's Interlude 00:00 Tools
Intermission 00:00 Tools
Pas De Trois 00:00 Tools
O.W. 00:00 Tools
Soul Eyes 00:00 Tools
Naima 00:00 Tools
Not Too Straight 00:00 Tools
Expectations 00:00 Tools
Medi II 00:00 Tools
West Side Winds 00:00 Tools
Paris Lover 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love 00:00 Tools
A Burning Flame 00:00 Tools
Every Time We Say Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Beantown Blues 00:00 Tools
Minor Blues 00:00 Tools
Solar 00:00 Tools
Minority 00:00 Tools
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square 00:00 Tools
Strivers Jewels 00:00 Tools
Some Other Spring 00:00 Tools
God Bless the Child 00:00 Tools
Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
I REMEMBER YOU 00:00 Tools
Dedicated to You 00:00 Tools
New Life 00:00 Tools
Au Privave 00:00 Tools
Some Other Time 00:00 Tools
Passing Through 00:00 Tools
Dark Side, Light Side 00:00 Tools
True Blue 00:00 Tools
Four 00:00 Tools
Sketches Of Tokyo 00:00 Tools
Christina 00:00 Tools
Makin' Whoopee 00:00 Tools
After the Morning (full version) (sampled in Flowers - Nujabes) 00:00 Tools
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing 00:00 Tools
Bouncing With Bud 00:00 Tools
UMMG 00:00 Tools
Ryhthm Run (Uphill) 00:00 Tools
Bookie Please 00:00 Tools
Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
EVERYTIME WE SAY GOODBYE 00:00 Tools
Cheese Cake 00:00 Tools
Whisper Not 00:00 Tools
Hell's Bells 00:00 Tools
With Malice Towards None 00:00 Tools
Balues-Bolivar-Balues-Are 00:00 Tools
Nica's Dream 00:00 Tools
For Heaven's Sake 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning - Live 00:00 Tools
Fine and Mellow 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear 00:00 Tools
Up Jumped Spring 00:00 Tools
Lord Have Mercy From "Music For Peace" 00:00 Tools
Lord Have Mercy from 'Music for Peace' 00:00 Tools
The Lord Says From "Music For Peace" 00:00 Tools
The Star-Crossed Lovers 00:00 Tools
No Problem 00:00 Tools
Rythm Run (Uphill) 00:00 Tools
MT. Royal Blues 00:00 Tools
Remembering Earl And Marva 00:00 Tools
Cheaters Never Win 00:00 Tools
Minor Mishap 00:00 Tools
Summary 00:00 Tools
Avocja 00:00 Tools
Angie's Tune 00:00 Tools
Ghost of Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Solid 00:00 Tools
Medley: Lotus/Blossom 00:00 Tools
Clarke Bar Blues 00:00 Tools
Sonnymoon For Two 00:00 Tools
Meditation 00:00 Tools
Take the Coltrane 00:00 Tools
As Birds Fly 00:00 Tools
My Conception (Prelude) 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-A-Ning (Live) 00:00 Tools
Fire Waltz 00:00 Tools
Beantown Blues*Previously Unreleased 00:00 Tools
Gift and a Curse 00:00 Tools
It Gets Better Everytime 00:00 Tools
Missing You 00:00 Tools
It Gets Better Every Time 00:00 Tools
Mid-West Blues (Blues On The River) 00:00 Tools
Lover Man 00:00 Tools
Book's Bossa 00:00 Tools
BeautifuL Love 00:00 Tools
Behind The Velvet Rope 00:00 Tools
Chasing the Sun 00:00 Tools
Vanderbilt 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Outrun a Memory 00:00 Tools
Zodiac Suite: Excerpt from 'Aries' 00:00 Tools
What a Little Moonlight Can Do 00:00 Tools
The Lord Says from 'Music for Peace' 00:00 Tools
Moanin' 00:00 Tools
Friends (feat. Danielle Hicks) 00:00 Tools
Straight Street 00:00 Tools
Elementary My Dear Watson 00:00 Tools
A Nightingale Sings In Barkley Square 00:00 Tools
Zodiac Suite: Excerpt From "Aries" 00:00 Tools
Wonder Where Your Heart Is Tonight 00:00 Tools
Someday Soon 00:00 Tools
Medley: Lotus, Blossom 00:00 Tools
Billie's Blues 00:00 Tools
Theme For Ernie 00:00 Tools
After the Morning (Flowers) 00:00 Tools
Blues March 00:00 Tools
Bandera Wind 00:00 Tools
Five After Four 00:00 Tools
I'm Going to Be Alright 00:00 Tools
Upjumped Spring 00:00 Tools
Until The Morning 00:00 Tools
RIDING BMX IN LB COMPTON GANG ZONES 2 (BMX IN THE HOOD) 00:00 Tools
Easy Living 00:00 Tools
I Thought About You 00:00 Tools
Cry Me A River 00:00 Tools
Inc 1 00:00 Tools
Steadfast (Nujabes / Steadfast) 00:00 Tools
Moments Notice 00:00 Tools
After the Morning (Nujabes / Flowers) 00:00 Tools
EAST SIDE BLUES 00:00 Tools
Motivation 00:00 Tools
Angle With A Briefcase 00:00 Tools
On the One 00:00 Tools
Dierdre de Samba 00:00 Tools
Pent-Up House 00:00 Tools
Mudd's Mode 00:00 Tools
MY CONCEPTION-Prelude 00:00 Tools
Light Blue 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
WitchCraft 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love Is 00:00 Tools
I Rememeber Clifford 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Sentimental over You 00:00 Tools
Faith 00:00 Tools
Diane 00:00 Tools
Don't let it go 00:00 Tools
Elation 00:00 Tools
In the Mix 00:00 Tools
Mood Swings 00:00 Tools
Piece for My Peace 00:00 Tools
Little Melonae 00:00 Tools
Nica`s Dream 00:00 Tools
Alone Together 00:00 Tools
After The Morning [Hicks Time (2000)] 00:00 Tools
Book Bossa 00:00 Tools
Inc. 1 00:00 Tools
Moon And Sand 00:00 Tools
Naomi's Love Song (feat. John Hicks) 00:00 Tools
For Heaven Sake 00:00 Tools
Come Rain or Come Shine 00:00 Tools
Some Other Spring / Some Other Time 00:00 Tools
Parisian Thoroughfare 00:00 Tools
Duke's Place 00:00 Tools
Cousin Mary 00:00 Tools
Impact 00:00 Tools
The Duke 00:00 Tools
SKY.FM Radio TSTAG_60 ADWTAG 00:00 Tools
Party at the Lake (feat. Lee Burgess) 00:00 Tools
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The international Jazz community mourns the loss of one of its most prolific jazz pianists, John Hicks. Mr. Hicks, born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1941, was the eldest of five children. His parents, Reverend Doctor John J. Hicks and the former Pollie Louise Bledsoe of Atlanta, both deceased, moved to Los Angeles when Mr. Hicks was an infant. That is where Hicks received his first piano lessons under the tutelage of his mother. When Hicks was fifteen, the family moved to Saint Louis, Missouri in order for the Reverend Hicks to take over the pulpit of Union Memorial Methodist Church. After graduating high school and attending Lincoln University, the prestigious Berklee School of Music in Boston, and Julliard School of Music in New York City, Hicks relocated to New York City from St. Louis by accepting his first road gig with Della Reese. That was over 40 years ago. John Hicks became so firmly established among the most in-demand, prolific jazz pianists and composers on the recording and live appearance scenes that critics permanently affixed the adjective "ubiquitous" to his name. As a leader or first-call sideman, playing inside or outside the chord changes, presenting sparkling ballads or burning up the keyboard at torrid tempos, Hicks was as versatile as he was omnipresent. He graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Kennedy Center, Spivey Hall, and a host of international jazz festivals. Mr. Hicks' varied influences include Fats Waller piano rolls, Methodist church music, George Gershwin, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. Among his musical mentors were such immortals as Lucky Thompson, Miles Davis and Clark Terry. Hicks also played road gigs with blues legends Little Milton and Albert King as well as jazz greats Al Grey, Johnny Griffin and Pharaoh Sanders before he arrived in New York in 1963. John then worked with, among numerous others, Kenny Dorham, Lou Donaldson and Joe Henderson before becoming a full-fledged member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. After two years with the seminal Messengers band, John joined the Betty Carter Trio, another important incubator for world-class beboppers. His productive stints with the vocalist Carter propelled John's career as a recording artist into international notice. Mr. Hicks had the opportunity to perform in such places as Italy, Japan, Australia, Israel, France, England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Taiwan The intervening year also saw Hicks performing live and on record with a galaxy of jazz giants that included Sonny Rollins, Carmen McRae, Freddie Hubbard, Frank Foster, Roy Haynes, Sonny Stitt, Jon Hendricks and James Moody. He additionally recorded several albums for both the Theresa (Evidence) and Disk Union with such cutting edge saxophone masters as David Murray, Ricky Ford & Arthur Blythe. He collaborated with fellow pianist Kenny Barron on an album for Candid. In the decade of the 90s, Hicks further expanded his visibility and acclaim. His recorded works included reunion meetings with Betty Carter to a solo concert at Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California to a variety of settings that included artists Joshua Redman, Al Grey, Clark Terry, Ron Carter, Grady Tate, Charles Tolliver, Oliver Lake, Roy Hargrove, Gary Bartz, and Bobby Watson among others. Although his exhaustive discography is inclusive of nearly every modern-day jazz great, his most recent creative undertakings include memorial recordings with his own trio: "Music in the Key of Clark" (Sonny Clark) - High Note; "Impressions of Mary Lou" (Mary Lou Williams) - High Note; "Nightwind" (Erroll Garner) - High Note; "John Hicks Trio and Strings with Larry Willis and Elise Wood" - Mapleshade; "So In Love" with Richard Davis - King Records; "Live in Taiwan" and "Beautiful Friendship" with flautist Elise Wood - Hiwood. Of particular note as a leader is his recording "Something to Live For: A Billy Strayhorn Songbook", which features some of Hicks' most lyrical work. The years of the past decade saw an increasing focus of solo work, trio work and his Quintet and Sextet. Teaming with a diverse array of musicians became a Hicks trademark. It also infused his playing with a unique characteristic: a relaxed confidence so total that at times it belied the passion he brought to a song. In all those realms, he brought together outstanding musicians all of whom shared with him excellence in the creation and delivery of the universal language. Among those with whom he worked were Curtis Lundy, David Murray, Elise Wood, David Newman, Hannibal Peterson, Cecil Brooks III, Walter Booker, Billy Bang, Sonny Fortune, Frank Wess, Louis Hayes, Buster Williams, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad, Mickey Bass, Lester Bowie, and a host of luminaries in the jazz genre. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.