You can never have too much Coleman Hawkins
I did get to do some serious music shoping while we were in New York, mostly at hole in the wall places downtown. Take-homes included:
- Coleman Hawkins (pictured) - Hawkins Alive at the Village Gate. 1962. A Japanese re-issue of a Verve recording, very nicely done.
- Coleman Hawkins - Coleman Hawkins and His Confreres. 1961. The dates feature Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge and the Oscar Peterson Trio back when Ray Brown was still in that band.
- Lionel Hampton - Ring Dem Vibes. 1976.
- Elvin Jones - Jazz Machine. 1999. A live recording from the Blue Note.
- Illinois Jacquet - The Blues, That's Me! 1969. IJ was a tenor sax player, but on this album he plays a Bassoon of all things on Monk's 'Round Midnight'. Great boozy sounding blues.
- Red Garland - Solar. 1962.
- Iro Haarla - Northbound. 2005. These newer ECM recordings are somewhat avant, but the musicians are excellent and the recordings tend to be peerless.
- Shelly Manne & His Men - At the Blackhawk #1. 1959. This is good west coast cool. There are actually five seperate albums released by Contemporary Records from this series of performances.
- Milt Jackson - Self titled. 1955. Very hard to beat this one.
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