Sonny Meets Hawk! [9 Tracks] (1963)

About this title: This is a truly strange (but, ultimately, pretty great) conglomeration of material: tracks one through six comprise a tenor saxophone summit meeting of sorts between bebop master Sonny Rollins and pre-bop elder statesman Coleman Hawkins, with Paul Bley on piano, drummer Roy McCurdy and the bass chair alternating between Henry Grimes and Bob Cranshaw. Tracks seven through nine find Rollins paired with trumpeter Don Cherry, with Grimes on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. Though it's the Rollins-Hawkins material that gets top billing here -- and make no mistake, there are some great moments on ... read more

Tracks:

1. Yesterdays [Harbach/Kern]
2. All the Things You Are [Hammerstein/Kern]
3. Summertime [Heyward/Gershwin/Ge]
4. Just Friends [Klenner/Lewis]
5. Lover Man [Davis/Ramirez/Sherm]
6. At McKie's [Rollins]
7. You Are My Lucky Star [Brown/Freed]
8. I Could Write a Book [Hart/Rodgers]
9. There Will Never Be Another You [Gordon/Warren]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.