Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
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| Studio album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins | |||||
| Released | February 1963 | ||||
| Recorded | August 18, 1962 New York City |
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| Genre | Jazz | ||||
| Length | 38:50 | ||||
| Label | Impulse! A-26 |
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| Producer | Bob Thiele | ||||
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Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins recorded on August 28, 1962 and released in February 1963 by Impulse! Records.[2]
In 1995, the New York Times described it as "one of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s"[3].
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
All songs composed by Duke Ellington, except where otherwise stated.
- "Limbo Jazz" — 5:14
- "Mood Indigo" (Ellington, Barney Bigard) — 5:56
- "Ray Charles' Place" — 4:03
- "Wanderlust" (Ellington, Johnny Hodges) — 5:00
- "You Dirty Dog" — 4:17
- "Self-Portrait (of the Bean)" — 3:50
- "The Jeep Is Jumpin'" (Ellington, Hodges) — 4:39
- "The Ricitic" — 5:51
- "Solitude" (Ellington, Eddie DeLange)[4] — 5:51
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Performance
- Duke Ellington - piano
- Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone
- Harry Carney - bass clarinet, baritone saxophone
- Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
- Lawrence Brown - trombone
- Ray Nance - violin, cornet
- Aaron Bell - bass
- Sam Woodyard - drums
[edit] Credits
- Bob Thiele (producer)
- Rudy Van Gelder (engineer)
- Joe Alper (photography)
- Jason Claiborne (graphic design)
- Stanley Dance (liner notes)
- Hollis King (art direction)
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- Michael Cuscuna (liner notes, reissue producer)
- Erick Labson (digital remastering)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Billboard, Feb. 9, 1963, p. 29.
- ^ Watrous, Peter. (December 17, 1995) "Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" New York Times. Accessed September 19, 2007.
- ^ CD reissue only. Solitude was until the 1995 CD reissue never part of the album. Originally issued on the compilation album The Definitive Jazz Scene-Volume 1 (Impulse! A-99) in the 1960s.
