👍 I listened quite a few times to all three volumes on YouTube. Effortless swing, and I dig the blues tracks. I found Vol. 3 for $5, so had to pounce. This will force me to listen to that volume before finding/purchasing the others. 😁

Looks like some Egyptian goddess statue posing as a silent listener. 

Mike, I read your post several times but cannot quite figure out what the puzzlement could possibly be. When I wrote my post I had both LPs before me and checked the entries in the Bruyninckx (digital) discography. The key facts I listed do match what you wrote. So we should have got this settled? (Except that in my post I had rashly and incorrectly written March 1955 for the Freddie Redd session - in fact it was "not quite March yet" - it was 28 February 1955 But that's unrelated to Hampton Hawes whom we are concerned with here.)

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