Search results for "Coleman Hawkins"

Coleman Hawkins: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

This arrangement of Thomas “Fats” Waller's classic opus is the unmistakable work of Benny Carter; the opening saxopho...

Coleman Hawkins: The Man I Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 11, 08

Nearly everyone hearing this track for the first time would likely become a lifelong Hawkins fan and admirer, if not ...

Coleman Hawkins: Hawk's Variation Parts 1 & 2 (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 02, 09

On an undetermined date sometime between June 1946 and January 1947, Coleman Hawkins recorded one of the most daring ...

Pee Wee Russell & Coleman Hawkins: 28th and 8th (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music February 09, 09

The album title Jazz Reunion refers to the fact that Pee Wee Russell and Coleman Hawkins had not recorded together si...

Coleman Hawkins: Bean Stalkin' (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 22, 09

A period of renewed interest and recognition for the influential saxophonist Coleman Hawkins began in the late '50's....

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: Lover Man (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Sonny Rollins’ avant-garde period – culminating in East Broadway Rundown – was in full bloom when the 33-year-old rec...

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: Just Friends (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 08, 08

These two tenor legends may have been "just friends," but there is still an aggressive edge to this encounter. Rolli...

Coleman Hawkins: Quintessence (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 29, 08

Coleman Hawkins could indeed make filet mignon out of chopped liver, much like Sonny Rollins. On Today and Now, Bean ...

Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

    Coleman Hawkins, photo by Ray AveryHistorian Ted Gioia calls this "the most celebrated saxoph...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins & Benny Carter: Smack (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 23, 07

This ad-hoc recording ensemble (which revived a name used for various small group record dates from the 1920s and '30...

Henry 'Red' Allen & Coleman Hawkins: I Cover the Waterfront (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 26, 07

"In 1957, [Henry 'Red' Allen] made a startling recording for Victor," Whitney Balliett wrote of this session. "It&nb...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Henry 'Red' Allen & Coleman Hawkins: S'Wonderful (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 26, 07

Henry 'Red' Allen lets loose with a boisterous version of "S'Wonderful" that lives up to the exuberant proclamation o...

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: All The Things You Are (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 20, 09

This track comes from the fabled Sonny Meets Hawk! sessions from July, 1963 with Rollins and Coleman Hawkins, and exh...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: FRANK KIMBROUGH

Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins (with Paul Bley): All the Things You Are (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

The piano solo on this song was my first introduction to Paul Bley's music. When I heard it for the first time (7 ye...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AARON PARKS SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL PAUL BLEY TRACKS

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Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins: Montono Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 21, 08

This early-'60s Kenny Burrell original is a relaxed setting paced by Ray Barretto's swaying Latin rhythms. The first ...

Count Basie All-Stars: I Left My Baby (1957) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

James Andrew Rushing, born in Oklahoma City in 1903, first recorded "I Left My Baby" in 1939 under the aegis of Willi...

Thelonious Monk: Well, You Needn't (1957) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Anytime you can get tenor sax giants Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane in a room together, the result is bound to be ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL THELONIOUS MONK PERFORMANCES

The pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was bebop’s mad genius. He and a handful of others created the jazz form, and...

Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow (Sound of Jazz, 1957) (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music February 11, 08

This is generally acknowledged as the greatest jazz moment ever broadcast on national television. And with good reas...

Henry "Red" Allen: Ain't She Sweet (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music May 27, 08

Henry "Red" Allen spent his life in Louis Armstrong's shadow, usually figuratively but sometimes literally. Like his ...

Mildred Bailey: Junk Man (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music September 14, 08

Mildred Bailey doesn't make her entrance until halfway through this track, but it's worth the wait, with Benny Goodma...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MILDRED BAILEY

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