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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Coleman Hawkins |
| Record Label: |
Bluebird RCA (USA) |
| Contributing Artist: |
Eddie Condon |
| Genre: |
Jazz Instrument |
| Subgenre: |
Bebop |
| Release Date: |
August 24, 2004 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Body and Soul
2. Wherever There's a Will, Baby
3. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
4. Hello Lola
5. Hocus Pocus
6. One Sweet Letter From You
7. Dinah
8. Bouncing With Bean
9. Say It Isn't So
10. Half Step Down, Please
11. Angel Face
12. I Love You
13. Bean Stalks Again
14. There Will Never Be Another You
15. His Very Own Blues
16. April in Paris
17. I Love Paris
18. Love Me or Leave Me
19. Just Friends
20. Body and Soul |
| More Information |
| Details: |
This release includes a bonus DVD featuring live performance footage. Personnel: Coleman Hawkins (saxophone); Don Redman (vocals, clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Eddie Condon (banjo); Pee Wee Russell (clarinet); Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro (trumpet); Glenn Miller (trombone); Fletcher Henderson, Hank Jones (piano); Gene Krupa, Max Roach (drums). There are numerous Coleman Hawkins compilations on the market, but THE CENTENNIAL COLLECTION encapsulates the span of Hawk's career (from 1929's hot- swing "Wherever There's a Will, Baby" to 1963's hard-bop duet with Sonny Rollins "Just Friends"), giving an excellent, condensed overview of the jazz legend's music. The disc represents Hawkins's stylistic blueprint for the modern use of the tenor sax, which is blazingly clear on early takes of "Hello Lola" and "Dinah." (Hawkins was arguably the first to establish a unique vocabulary and an utterly distinctive voice on the instrument.) Moreover, Hawkins was a tirelessly imaginative player who constan... |
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