Product Description:
THE GENIUS OF COLEMAN HAWKINS contains previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Personnel: Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Oscar Peterson (piano); Herb Ellis (guitar); Ray Brown (bass); Alvin Stoller (drums).
Producer: Norman Granz.
Reissue producers: Michael Lang, Ben Young.
Recorded at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California on October 16, 1957. Includes liner notes by Alun Morgan and Nat Hentoff.
Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Chris Herles (Polygram Studios).
This is part of the Verve Master Edition series.
Though Coleman Hawkins is considered the father of jazz tenor saxophone, he was also a curiously contemporary figure who always sounded fresh despite the heavy vibrato and archaic 1-2 downbeat. Hawkins played with the be-boppers, recorded with Thelonious Monk, composed small unaccompanied tone poems such as "Picasso." Perhaps this sterling session with Oscar Peterson's Trio isn't so avant garde, yet it's still a bold portrait of the artist as an improvising heavyweight in his prime. In 1957, Hawkins's masterly phrasing, rich tonal palette and forceful expression of ideas could meet the brilliant Sonny Rollins of SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS on quite similar musical terrain and even come out ahead.
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