Coleman Hawkins

THE INTEGRAL PERFORMANCES OF ROY AND HAWK AT THE BAYOU CLUB, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON A SINGLE SET !!!

Three tracks, including a new version of Hawkins’ celebrated variation on Body And Soul, never before appeared on CD !
Coleman Hawkins (ts), Roy Eldridge (tp) Don Wilson (p), Bob Decker (b) & Buddy Dean (d)

Recorded live at the Bayou Club, Washington D.C., January 1959.

CD 1: 1. Blue Lou, 2. Basin Street Blues, 3. Just You, Just Me, 4. Rifftide , 5. Ballad Medley: I Can’t Get Started / These Foolish Things, 6. Undecided, 7. Honeysuckle Rose, 8. Lady Be Good, 9. How High The Moon / Ornithology TT: 74:56

CD 2: 1. Bayou Atmosphere, 2. The Birth Of The Blues, 3. Bean And The Boys, 4. Vignette, 5. Body And Soul, 6. Soft Winds, 7. Undecided, 8. Indian Summer, 9. Soft Winds, 10. Vignette
TT: 76:31

Bonus Tracks: CD 2, 7-8: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Roy Eldridge (tp), Vic Dickenson (tb), Hubert Rostaing (cl), Michel de Villers (bar), Lou Levy (p), Arvell Shaw (b), J.C. Heard (d). Antibes Jazz Festival, Cannes, July 8, 1958.

CD 2, 9-10: Coleman Hawkins (ts), Roy Eldridge (tp), Ray Bryant (p), Tommy Bryant (b), Oliver Jackson (d).
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 3, 1959.