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Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry: Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry: Tenor Giants

by Mike Neely
April 1, 2000

Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry: Tenor Giants offers first rate performances of a familiar master and introduces to many the small group recordings of a tenor who shared solo time with Lester Young in the Count Basie Band. This GRP reissue features two Coleman Hawkins sessions, of 1940 and 1943, and two Chu Berry recordings, of 1938 and 1941. In addition to the headliners' outstanding tenor solo work, outstanding trumpet work of either Roy Eldridge, Cootie Williams or “Hot Lips" ...

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Coleman Hawkins: On Broadway

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 1997

A generous 76-minute CD, Coleman Hawkins On Broadway contains 1962 recordings originally heard on three LPs: Good Old Broadway, Coleman Hawkins Plays Make Someone Happy From Do Re Mi and The Coleman Hawkins Quartet Plays The Jazz Version Of No Strings. All of the songs Hawk interprets were from Broadway plays, and everything boasts the sparkling Tommy Flanagan on piano, Major Holley on bass and Eddie Locke on drums. Fast-tempo aggression isn't a priority here--instead, the seminal tenor saxman brings ...

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Coleman Hawkins: Desafinado - Coleman Hawkins Plays Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 1997

One of the great albatrosses around the neck of the recording industry has been the forced recording of ill-conceived “novelty" recordings. As far back as recorded music goes, artists have been forced, cajoled, and manipulated into making recordings that some marketing genius decided would “cash in" on a fad or hot idea. Often, the music called for in these projects is completely different from what the artist usually played; more often than not, these projects turned out ...