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Jazz Icons: Live in '62 & '64
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Jazz Icons: Coleman Hawkins presents two incredible concerts from 1962 and 1964 featuring 140 minutes of music. Both concerts feature stellar European and American side-musicians including Harry “Sweets” Edison on trumpet and drummer “Papa” Jo Jones – both jazz legends in their own right. The 1962 show is a newly-discovered one-hour concert from the Adolphe Sax Festival in Belgium, which has never been seen. Coleman Hawkins, “The Father of Jazz Saxophone,” demonstrates in these two concerts why he is still considered one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz.
20-page booklet
Liner notes by Scott Deveaux
Cover photo by Jan Persson
Booklet photos by Chuck Stewart, Lee Tanner, Jan Persson, Val Wilmer, Rolf Ambor
Memorabilia collage
Total time: 140 minutes
If there is a single word to describe my father, it is probably the word “pioneer.”
Although he always denied this claim, it is well known that he transformed the tenor saxophone from a Vaudevillian novelty into a premier solo instrument.
My father’s love affair with Europe began in 1934 when he sailed alone to the United Kingdom to tour with the Jack Hilton Orchestra. Seventy-five years ago, it was an act of bravery for an African-American to venture across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. He was among a small group of remarkable artists like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and the lesser known Willie Lewis who brought a genuine American art form to Europe in the 1920s and 1930s that eventually spread around the globe.
By the time the Ile de France docked in England on March 30, 1934, news of my father’s pending arrival had travelled to Europe. While he was still aboard the French liner, Ben Davis of the Selmer Company presented him with his first Selmer saxophone. Despite periodic Visa problems, my father’s popularity extended his original tour with Jack Hilton to a five-year residency throughout the continent. He fell in love with Selmer saxophones during this period, too. He played them exclusively for the remainder of his life. Colette Hawkins
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Belgium 1962: Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax); George Arvanitis (piano); Jimmy Woode (bass); Kansas Fields (drums)England 1964: Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax); Harry Sweets Edison (trumpet); Charles Thompson (piano): Jimmy Woode (bass); Jo Jones (drums) |
TRACKS
Live in Belgium 1962:
Disorder At The Border
Autumn Leaves
Lover Come Back To Me
Moonlight In Vermont
All The Things You Are
Ow!
Live in England 1964:
Disorder At The Border
Lover Man
Stella By Starlight
Girl From Ipanema
What Is This Thing Called Love
Stoned
September Song
What’s New
Willow Weep For Me
Centerpiece
Caravan |
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