Duke Ellington

D. Ellington Meets C. Hawkins + 5 Bonus Track (EJC 55646)

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1962

D. Ellington Meets C. Hawkins + 5 Bonus Track

Duke Ellington

Essential Jazz Classics

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EJC 141735

EJC 55646

JAZZ

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D. Ellington Meets C. Hawkins + 5 Bonus Track

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INCLUDES 5 BONUS TRACKS

4 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE - 4 1/2 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Even though Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins had both been well-known jazzmen since the early 1920s and continued to be successful until their deaths, their only recorded encounter was the LP "Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" (Impulse AS-26), taped in 1962 and presented here in its entirety. Five further songs consisting of Hawkins performing compositions by Duke or from the Ellington band’s songbook have been added here as bonus tracks. Among them is the saxophonist’s rarely heard only existing reading of the beautiful “The Star-Crossed Lovers”, from the Ellington-Strayhorn Shakespearean Suite Such Sweet Thunder.

PERSONNEL:

COLEMAN HAWKINS, tenor sax & DUKE ELLINGTON, piano, on all tracks, with:

RAY NANCE, cornet, violin
JOHNNY HODGES, alto sax
HARRY CARNEY, baritone sax, bass clarinet
AARON BELL. bass
SAM WOODYARD, drums

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, August 18, 1962.

BONUS TRACKS (10-14):

10: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Randy Weston (p), Wilbur Little (b), Roy Haynes (d).
Live at the Five Spot, New York, October 26, 1959.

11: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Clark Terry (tp), Tommy Flanagan (p), Major Holley (b), Dave Bailey (d). New York, December 10, 1962.

12: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Rex Stewart (tp), Tyree Glenn (tb), Claude Hopkins (p), Billy Bauer (g), Arvell Shaw (b), Cozy Cole (d). New York, December, 1955.

13: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Roy Eldridge (tp), Johnny Hodges (as), Tommy Flanagan (p), Major Holley (b), Eddie Locke (d). Live at the Village Gate, New York, August 15, 1962.

14: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Hank Jones (p), George Duvivier (b), Shelly Manne (d).
New York, February 5, 1962.

INCLUDES 12.PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

1) Limbo Jazz
2) Mood Indigo
3) Ray Charles’ Place
4) Wanderlust
5) You Dirty Dog
6) Self Portrait (Of The Bean)
7) The Jeep Is Jumpin’
8) The Ricitic
9) Solitude
10) The Star-Crossed Lovers*
11) Just Squeeze Me*
12) Perdido*
13) Satin Doll*
14) Take The “A” Train*

Total Time: 78:53 min.