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Hugh Lawson

Detroit, United States

Hugh Lawson is credited on 332 releases across 70 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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332

Pressings credited

70

Albums

8

Decades active

58

In collections

Biography

Hugh Lawson (March 12, 1935 – March 11, 1997), was an American jazz pianist from Detroit who worked with Yusef Lateef for more than 10 years. Inspired by Bud Powell, Hampton Hawes and Bill Evans, Lawson first gained recognition for his work with Lateef from 1957 onwards. He recorded with Harry "Sweets" Edison (1962), Roy Brooks, and Lateef again on several occasions in the 1960s. In 1972, he performed with "The Piano Choir" (Strata-East), a group with seven pianists including Stanley Cowell and Harold Mabern. He went on to tour with Charles Mingus in 1975 and 1977 and made recordings with Charlie Rouse (1977), George Adams, and as a leader. Lawson died of colon cancer in White Plains, NY, March 11, 1997, at the age of 61.

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Credited work

332 releases · 70 albums · active 1957–2024

  • Performance · 484
  • Other credits · 67

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Vanguard Studios · Blue Rock Studio

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