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Coleman Hawkins
Encounters Ben Webster the Complete Session
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Blues For Yolande - Coleman Hawkins, Hawkins, Coleman
2. It Never Entered My Mind - Coleman Hawkins,
3. La Rosita - Coleman Hawkins, Haenschen
4. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Coleman Hawkins, Porter, Cole
5. Prisoner Of Love - Coleman Hawkins, Haskill
6. Tangerine - Coleman Hawkins,
7. Shine On, Harvest Moon - Coleman Hawkins, Norwith
8. Maria - Coleman Hawkins, Hawkins, Coleman
9. Cocktails for Two - Coleman Hawkins, Coslow
10. Blues for Yolande [Mono Version] [Version] - Coleman Hawkins, Hawkins, Coleman
11. La Rosita [Short Alternate Version] [Version] - Coleman Hawkins, Haenschen
12. Shine On, Harvest Moon [Short Alternate Version] [Version] - Coleman Hawkins, Norwith
13. My Melancholy Baby - Coleman Hawkins, Burnett, Ernie
14. Where Are You - Coleman Hawkins,
15. Ill Wind - Coleman Hawkins,
16. Ill Wind - Coleman Hawkins,
17. Blues For Yolande [Incomplete Takes] [Take] - Coleman Hawkins, Hawkins, Coleman

CD Details

All Artists: Coleman Hawkins
Title: Encounters Ben Webster the Complete Session
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Essential Jazz Class
Release Date: 2/17/2009
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8436028694341

Synopsis

Album Description

This 2009 release contains the complete classic album Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster as well as the other six tunes from the sessions, originally issued on other Hawkins' albums and long out of print anthologies. As a bonus, we have added four songs from sessions recorded on both the previous and the same day by each saxophonist alone with the same rhythm section. The sessions end with each player presenting his own reading of 'Ill Wind'. Essential Jazz Classics.

CD Reviews

A very relaxed encounter

Robin Benson | 07/06/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I always think re-issues are a bit of a trap for the unwary and the Hawkins and Webster 'Encounters' CD is a good example. Amazon has several editions at various prices and slightly different track listings. The original LP had seven tracks and some CDs carry two additional versions of the first track Blues for Yolande but this Essential Jazz Classics is the only one to have seventeen tracks and lasts for just over seventy-eight minutes. The additional tracks are from the same session in October 1957 with two omitting Hawkins and two omitting Webster. Of all the versions available this would seem the right one to get.

Having worked out this was the best CD I have to say I was disappointed with the contents. Webster and especially Hawkins I felt were just coasting and going through the motions of playing some relaxing but rather unremarkable jazz. Hawkins plays much better on Swingville (1960) or Blues Groove (1958) both sessions recorded by Rudy Van Gelder.

The original LP 'Encounters' tracks are blues oriented with plenty of meandering solos, the extra tracks from the session are similar. None of the seven original tracks lasted more than six and a half minutes, hardly enough time to deliver some creative improvisation though Hawkins, of course, can create wonderfully rich solos in no time at all. (`Tiny Bean' from the Blues Groove session has him playing a quite stunning bit of improvisation in less than two minutes).

'Encounters' is pleasant enough, mostly slow blues material but I thought it lacked anything original from either Hawkins or Webster.

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