Coleman Hawkins ”Night Hawk”

Coleman Hawkins

”Night Hawk”
( LP Prestige Records, 1960 )
Catalog # SVLP 2016
Also issued on Prestige PR 7671; Fantasy OJC 420, OJCCD 420-2

Tracklisting:
01 Night Hawk
02 There Is No Greater Love
03 In A Mellow Tone
04 Don’t Take Your Love From Me
05 Pedalin’

Personnel:
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Coleman Hawkins (ts)
Tommy Flanagan (p)
Ron Carter (b)
Gus Johnson (d)
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, December 30, 1960

Review:
Hawkins was one of the main inspirations of his fellow tenor Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, so it was logical that they would one day meet up in the recording studio. This record has many fine moments from these two highly competitive jazzmen, particularly the lengthy title cut and a heated tradeoff on “In a Mellow Tone,” on which Davis goes higher but Hawkins wins on ideas.
By Scott Yanow (AMG)

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