Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
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| Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins | |||||
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| Studio album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins | |||||
| Released | January 1963[1] | ||||
| Recorded | August 18, 1962 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs |
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| Genre | Jazz | ||||
| Length | 39:05 | ||||
| Label | Impulse! A-26 |
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| Producer | Bob Thiele | ||||
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| Allmusic |  [2] |
| Down Beat |  [3] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [4] |
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.[5]
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"[6].
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" — 4:04
- "Wanderlust" (Ellington, Johnny Hodges) — 5:00
- "You Dirty Dog" — 4:19
- "Self-Portrait (of the Bean)" — 3:52
- "The Jeep Is Jumpin'" (Ellington, Hodges) — 4:49
- "The Ricitic" — 5:51
- "Solitude" (Ellington, Eddie DeLange)[7] — 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
- ↑ Billboard Feb 9, 1963
- ↑ Allmusic review
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- ↑ 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.
