Sonny Meets Hawk! [6 Tracks] (1963)

About this title: Throughout a career that spanned more than 40 years, Coleman Hawkins consistently maintained a progressive attitude, operating at or near the cutting edge of developments in jazz. If Hawk's versatility came in handy when he backed Abbey Lincoln during Max Roach's 1960 We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, he took on an assignment of challenging dimensions when in 1963 he cut an entire album with Sonny Rollins in the company of pianist Paul Bley, bassists Bob Cranshaw and Henry Grimes, and drummer Roy McCurdy. Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins each virtually defined the tenor saxophone for his ... read more

Tracks:

1. Yesterdays [Kern/Harbach]
2. All the Things You Are [Hammerstein/Kern]
3. Summertime [Gershwin/Gershwin]
4. Just Friends [Klenner/Lewis]
5. Lover Man [Davis/Ramirez/Sherm]
6. At McKie's [Rollins]

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