Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins and Horace Silver were only recorded together during two Birland broadcast presented here, which had never previouslky appeared on CD. Both sets were recorded in a quintet format, with Hawk sharing the frontline with Roy Eldridge on the first show and Howard McGhee on the second one. As a bonus, Hawkin`s complete quartet set at the First Playboy Jazz Festival in 1959 and a seven-minute Hawkins interview, which also appear here for the first time ever on CD.

[1-3] COLEMAN HAWKINS, tenor sax
ROY ELDRIDGE, trumpet
HORACE SILVER, piano
CURLEY RUSSELL, bass
ART BLAKEY, drums
Birland, New York, Saturday, September 13, 1952.

[4-6] Same personnel except
HOWARD McGHEE, trumpet (replaces Eldridge)
CONNIE KAY, drums, (replaces Blakey)
Birland, New York, Saturday, September 6, 1952.

Bonus tracks:
[7-10]: COLEMAN HAWKINS, tenor sax
EDDIE HIGGINS, piano
BOB CRANSHAW, bass
WALTER PERKINS, drums
1st Playboy Jazz Festival, Chicago, August 9, 1952

[11] HAWKINS interview in London, England, c.a. 1960.

Tracks:
01. Disorder At The Border
02. The Blue Room
03. Stuffy
04. Rifftide
05. I Can’t Get Started
06. Disorder At The Border #2
07. All The Things You Are
08. Centerpiece
09. Body and Soul
10. Just You, just Me
11 Coleman Hawkins Interview.
TOTAL TIME: 72:15