Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
Studio album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins
Released	February 1963
Recorded	August 18, 1962
Genre	Jazz
Length	44:51
Label	Impulse! (A-26, AS-26)
Producer	Bob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
Midnight in Paris (1962) Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1963) Studio Sessions, New York 1962 (1962)
Coleman Hawkins chronology
Alive! (1962) Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1963) Desafinado (1963)

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Allmusic	[1]

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.^[2]

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"^[3].

Track listing

All songs composed by Duke Ellington (except where otherwise stated).

1. Limbo Jazz — 5:15
2. Mood Indigo — 5:56
     (co-composer is Barney Bigard)
3. Ray Charles' Place — 4:05
4. Wanderlust — 5:00
     (co-composer is Johnny Hodges)
5. You Dirty Dog — 4:20
6. Self-Portrait (of the Bean) — 3:53
7. The Jeep is Jumpin' — 4:50
     (co-composer is Johnny Hodges)
8. The Ricitic — 5:53
9. Solitude^[4] — 5:51
     (co-composer is Eddie DeLange)

Personnel

Performance

• Duke Ellington (piano)
• Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone)
• Aaron Bell (bass)
• Lawrence Brown (trombone)
• Harry Carney (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone)
• Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone)
• Ray Nance (violin, cornet)
• 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

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Billboard, Feb. 9, 1963, p. 29.
3. ^ Watrous, Peter. (December 17, 1995) "Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" New York Times. Accessed September 19, 2007.
4. ^ 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.