Holiday For Swing, Volume 2: 1940-1948
jazz piano blues wordless jazz instrumental
After Hours was written by Erskine Hawkins and Avery Parrish and played by the Erskine Hawkins big band. Recorded in 1940, it was first released in 1946 as a single on 78 RPM (flip side: Hawk's Boogie). Later combined with Tuxedo Junction, Tippin In and a number of other blues / jazz releases on an album called "After Hours" and was the number two track on the album following Tuxedo Junction. It has been acclamed as one of the top jazz piano and bass duets ever played. Read more on Last.fm.

Erskine Hawkins (July 26, 1914—November 11, 1993) was a trumpet player and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed "The 20th Century Gabriel". He is most remembered as the composer of the jazz standard, "Tuxedo Junction" (1939), which became a popular hit during World War II. In 1978 Erskine Hawkins became one of the first five artists inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He died in 1993 in Willingboro, New Jersey. Hawkins was an exact contemporary of another Birmingham jazz great, Sun Ra. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.