Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
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| Down Beat |  [2] |
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.[3]
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"[4].
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)[5] — 5:51
Personnel
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
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)
Notes
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ DeMicheal, Don (March 28, 1963). Down Beat: 112.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ 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.