Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

by Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1963
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:09
  • Community rating: 4.01/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Coleman Hawkins

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A remarkable summit between the architect of modern jazz orchestration and the patriarch of the tenor saxophone. This historical session finds Coleman Hawkins effortlessly sliding into Ellington's lush frameworks with muscular, deeply ingrained swing.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, instrumental, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Limbo Jazz (5:13)
  2. Mood Indigo (5:57)
  3. Ray Charles' Place (4:05)
  4. Wanderlust (5:01)
  5. You Dirty Dog (4:18)
  6. Self Portrait (of the Bean) (3:52)
  7. The Jeep Is Jumpin' (4:48)
  8. The Ricitic (5:51)

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