Coleman Hawkins

This release contains the complete classic album Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster(Verve), as well as the other six tunes from the session, originally issued on other Hawkins’ albums and long out of print anthologies. As a bonus, we have added four songs from sessions recorded on both the previous and the same day by each saxophonist alone with the same rhythm section. The sessions end with each player presenting his own reading of “Ill Wind”.

1)BLUES FOR YOLANDE 6:48
2)IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND 5:49
3)LA ROSITA 5:04
4)YOU’D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO 4:18
5)PRISONER OF LOVE 4:15
6)TANGERINE 5:23
7)SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON 4:48
8)MARIA 6:35*
9)COCKTAILS FOR TWO 2:42*
10)BLUES FOR YOLANDE (alternate version 1) 6:54*
11)BLUES FOR YOLANDE (alternate version 2) 3:01*
12)LA ROSITA (short alternate version) 2:37*
13)SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON (short alternate version) 2:21*
14)MY MELANCHOLY BABY 4:12**
15)WHERE ARE YOU 4:42**
16)ILL WIND [Coleman Hawkins] 5:37**
17)ILL WIND [Ben Webster] 3:31**

TOTAL TIME: 78:41

COLEMAN HAWKINS, tenor sax
BEN WEBSTER, tenor sax
OSCAR PETERSON, piano
HERB ELLIS, guitar
RAY BROWN, bass
ALVIN STOLLER, drums

Los Angeles, October 16, 1957.
*From the same session but not included on the original LP.

**BONUS TRACKS:
14 & 16: Same personnel, place and date but omit Ben Webster.
15 & 17: Same personnel but omit Coleman Hawkins and Stan Levey (d) replaces Stoller. Los Angeles, October 15, 1957.

See 12-page booklet for complete information