Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk in Hi - Fi - 1956

Coleman Hawkins With Billy Byers And His Orchestra

Coleman Hawkins tenor saxophone, with Billy Byers arranger, and his orchestra. Tracks 1 - 4, 7 - 10 and 13 - 21 concert orchestra including strings. Tracks 5,6,11 and 12 big band line up. All tracks recorded at Webster Hall NYC. January 17,18 and 20 1956.

This is a great record to play to really hear what bop did to jazz.
Because the music player Coleman Hawkins could bop; he just didn't.
He has the mastery of his instrument, and musical structure is an open map to him and when this was recorded in '56, Hawk was hearing bop everywhere.
This music is nice to listen to, it swings and has soul. But it shows very clearly just how great an advancement bop was, and how enormous was the accomplishment of Bird and Roach and Lester and all of them, and just what we would be missing without it.
Enjoy Coleman Hawkins for all that he was; his music is beautiful, his soul is deep, but imagine the enormity of loss if that was all there was. - Saddam Hitler

Tracks -
1. Body And Soul
2. Little Girl Blue
3. I Never Knew
4. Dinner For One Please, James
5. The Bean Stalks Again
6. His Very Own Blues
7. The Day You Came Along
8. Have You Met Miss Jones?
9. The Essence Of You
10. There Will Never Be Another You
11. I'm Shooting High
12. Bean And The Boys ( issued as 39"-25"-39" )
ALTERNATE TAKES (previously unissued)
13. There Will Never Be Another You
14. There Will Never Be Another You
15. Little Girl Blue
16. Dinner For One Please, James
17. I Never Knew
18. Have You Met Miss Jones?
19. Have You Met Miss Jones?
20. Have You Met Miss Jones?
21. The Day You Came Along

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