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Jimmy Hopps
Washington, D.C., United States
Jimmy Hopps is credited on 263 releases across 47 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1965–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
263
Pressings credited
47
Albums
7
Decades active
42
In collections
Biography
James Edward Hopps Jr. (born 1939) is an American jazz drummer. Although he never recorded as a leader, he worked extensively with Roland Kirk, Charles Tolliver, Stanley Cowell, and Pharoah Sanders during some of their well known sessions. He also worked with Sahib Shihab, Joe Bonner, Cecil McBee, Marion Brown, Shirley Scott, Jan Garbarek, and Arild Andersen. Kazumi Watanabe's Mudari - Spirit Of Song features Hopps as a co-leader. Hopps retired from jazz in the late 1970's. In 1978 he legally changed his name to Jimmi EsSpirit. He made a brief return on A Song for the Sun, by the Sun Ra Arkestra directed by Marshall Allen, under the name Jimmi EsSpirit.
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Credited work
263 releases · 47 albums · active 1965–2026
- Performance · 351
- Other credits · 12
Studios: Newport Jazz Festival · Westlake Studios · Wally Heider Studios · Minot Sound
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Inflated Tear
1968
Elevation
1974
Vista
1975
Music Inc.
1971
Volunteered Slavery
1969
J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969-1984
2018
Mutima
1974
Don't Look Back
1974
Spirits Up Above: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology - The Atlantic Years 1965-1976
2012
Angel Eyes
1976
One For Me
1974
Illusion Suite
1973
Village Of The Pharoahs
1973
The Art Of Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Atlantic Years
1973
Sentiments
1972
Live At Slugs' Volume 1
1972
Blues For The Viet Cong
1969
The Ringer
1969
Left & Right
1969
Free, Frantic And Funky
1965
Roland Kirk
1969
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