Coleman Hawkins – Wrapped Tight (1965/2012)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 34:55 minutes | 1,37 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 34:55 minutes | 690 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Artwork: Digital Booklet
Genre: Jazz | © Analogue Productions (Impulse)
In the course of a long and illustrious career, Hawkins has subjected his style to continuous development. Intellectually and technically flexible, the style has always remained the man, distinctive and personal. This album reveals a new deployment of resources, a new viewpoint arrived at after a period of reflection.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – Today And Now (1963/2012)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 40:34 minutes | 1,59 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:34 minutes | 816 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Artwork: Front Cover
Genre: Jazz | © Analogue Productions
Coleman Hawkins recorded three sessions for Impulse Records in the early to mid ’60s. Of the three, Today And Now is the most compelling. The unusual choice of repertoire is what sets this album apart. Versions of the traditional song “Go Li’s Liza” and the fairly obscure Quincy Jones ballad “Quintessence” are creatively rendered. Indeed, Hawk seems inspired throughout; he plays with an abandon that is altogether effortless.
Read moreColeman Hawkins, Ben Webster – Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1959/2014)
DSF DSD64 | Time – 00:36:33 minutes | 1,49 GB | Source: SACD ISO
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192kHz | Time – 00:36:33 minutes | 1,51 GB | Source: acousticsounds.com
Genre: Jazz | The Verve Music Group
Ben Webster emulated the big, breathy saxophone style of his influence, Coleman Hawkins. When the two legendary tenor sax players joined forces on this historic 1957 recording, the results were magical. The two players show off how they can swing and yet display sensitivity playing the beautiful melodies of the mid-tempo ballads, backed by an incredible rhythm section starring Oscar Peterson on piano along with Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on double bass and drummer Alvin Stoller. Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster combines standards by Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and Rodgers and Hart with a raunchy Hawkins original tune, Blues For Yolande that turns into a tenor sax duel between Hawkins and Webster. This album has been released in some countries under the title Blue Saxophones.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – Coleman Hawkins and Confreres (1958/2014)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82 MHz | Time – 34:55 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Jazz
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:58 minutes | 1,45 GB
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Analogue Productions (Verve)
This unique 1958 recording is a collaboration between Coleman Hawkins and the Oscar Peterson Trio. Hawkins’s voluminous, supple tenor sax sound, which had a great influence on the styles of musicians ranging from Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins up to Joe Lovano, is best heard on Honey Flower. The album features Ben Webster on tenor sax, Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass, Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, George Duvivier on double bass and drummers Alvin Stoller and Mickey Sheen.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – Supreme Jazz (2006)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:05 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 3,37 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,1 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Membran Music # 223275
Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed Hawk and sometimes “Bean”, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: “there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn”. While Hawkins is strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – Coleman Hawkins And Confreres (1958) [Analogue Productions 2012]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 34:47 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 1,4 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 410 MB
This unique 1958 recording is a collaboration between Coleman Hawkins and the Oscar Peterson Trio. Hawkins’s voluminous, supple tenor sax sound, which had a great influence on the styles of musicians ranging from Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins up to Joe Lovano, is best heard on Honey Flower. The album features Ben Webster on tenor sax, Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass, Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, George Duvivier on double bass and drummers Alvin Stoller and Mickey Sheen.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – The Hawk Relaxes (1961/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:16 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige
Despite the inherent modesty of its title, The Hawk Relaxes is far more than merely a tenor saxophonist—albeit one of the greatest who ever lived—at his ease. Recorded for Prestige’s Moodsville subsidiary, the album presents Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969), paterfamilias of the tenor and one its master balladeers.
As he grew older, Hawkins often made it a point to perform with much younger musicians, in order to keep his work fresh. Pianist Ronnell Bright, 30 years old at the time of this recording, was the oldest of Hawkins’s accompanists herein, while drummer Andrew Cyrille was, at just 21, the junior partner. With the multifaceted guitarist Kenny Burrell and bassist Ron Carter, at the dawn of what would be a ubiquitously brilliant career, rounding out a highly simpatico group, Hawkins adroitly weaves his way rhapsodically through seven timeless popular songs that lend themselves to his signature harmonic brilliance.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – Desafinado: Coleman Hawkins Plays Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba (1962/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:39 minutes | 795 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Impulse!
That Coleman Hawkins jumped on the jazz/bossa nova bandwagon craze initiated by Stan Getz in 1962 was a bit of a surprise to his fans, but that he was comfortable in the idiom should not be off-putting. Able to adapt to any style over his lengthy career, the legendary tenor saxophonist chose classic standards adapted to Brazilian rhythms, music from masters like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, and a Manny Albam original. Producer Bob Thiele and music director Albam were strong in their resolve directing Hawkins to do this project, and the results are fairly predictable, especially considering that every single track is played in midtempo. The difference is the deployment of two guitarists in Barry Galbraith (lead) and Howard Collins (rhythm) split into separate stereo channels, with bassist Major Holley and no full kit drummer, although Eddie Locke with a minimal and stripped-down setup, Willie Rodriguez, and even Tommy Flanagan play small Latin percussion instruments.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – Coleman Hawkins And His Confreres (1958/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:58 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues
This unique 1958 recording is a collaboration between Coleman Hawkins and the Oscar Peterson Trio. Hawkins’s voluminous, supple tenor sax sound, which had a great influence on the styles of musicians ranging from Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins up to Joe Lovano, is best heard on Honey Flower. The album features Ben Webster on tenor sax, Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass, Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, George Duvivier on double bass and drummers Alvin Stoller and Mickey Sheen.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – Coleman Hawkins (Remastered) (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:32 minutes | 708 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz King Records
Jazz King records presents a compilation of hits from saxophone giant Coleman Hawkins! One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: “there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn”.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – Blue Saxophones (1957/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:50 minutes | 391 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager
Ben Webster was considered one of the “big three” of swing tenors along with Coleman Hawkins (his main influence) and Lester Young. Blue Saxophones is a studio album recorded in 1957 by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster. Accompanied by a rhythm section with Herb Ellis guitar, Alvin Stoller drums and Ray Brown on double bass led by Oscar Peterson. They just blend together beautifully, and with the great Oscar Peterson on piano, the approach is always very tasteful. This encounter shows the two veterans at the peaks of their powers. Most of the album is a relaxed meeting of old friends, though. Coleman and Webster duet beautifully on the heads of “La Rosita” and “It Never Entered My Mind”.
Read moreColeman Hawkins – At Ease With Coleman Hawkins (1960/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]
Coleman Hawkins – At Ease With Coleman Hawkins (1960/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:52 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige Records
At Ease is one of the most charming and attractive of the many albums Coleman Hawkins and Tommy Flanagan made together—a collection of ballads played with great affection for the melody. Hawkins could be fiercely aggressive in his playing. In this collection, he displays his tenderness. If ever there was a master of the ballad, it was Coleman Hawkins. His romantic style and sound caused one writer to say: “Hawk turned the saxophone into the sexophone.”
At Ease was done for the Moodsville series but while Hawkins, with the expert help of his pianist, Tommy Flanagan, sets a mood on eight standards, it is never merely mood music.
Read moreBuck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins – Petits jazz pour tous, no. 21 (Mono Version) (1959/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 13:57 minutes | 139 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © BnF Collection
From the archives of Bibliothèque nationale de France… Original Mono version of Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins – Petits jazz pour tous no.21…
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Coleman Hawkins – Too Cool (Live) (1958/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 34:07 minutes | 329 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delta Music – Concert Archive
Coleman Hawkins was the first important tenor saxophonist and he remains one of the greatest of all time. A consistently modern improviser whose knowledge of chords and harmonies was encyclopedic, Hawkins had a 40-year prime (1925-1965) during which he could hold his own with any competitor.
Read moreKenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins – Bluesy Burrell (1963/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:32 minutes | 425 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Digital booklet | © Prestige Records
Recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, September 14, 1962; #8 – August 15, 1963
Remastered: 2008, Rudy Van Gelder at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Kenny Burrell performs with Coleman Hawkins and his rhythm section. Burrell is in optimum form on all the numbers and in their varied expressions. The leading neo-bop guitarist, he is capable of a far reaching range of expression. His chords can be as lush as, say Johnny Smith’s can, but his lines are always rhythmically spirited by a very powerful jazz energy and blues-in-formed charge that I think no contemporary guitarist can equal.
“… (Hawkins) clearly enjoys playing with Burrell, as much as you’ll enjoy playing the record.””
—All About Jazz
Features the BONUS TRACK “I Never Knew.” (more…)
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