Coleman Hawkins Portrait—Past Perfect Series

Contents

CD 1—Heartbreak Blues (TT: 65:13 1929-34): Hello, Lola; One Hour; Dismal Dan; Poor Richard; Down Georgia Way; Georgia On My Mind; I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me; The Darktown Strutter’s Ball; You Rascal, You; The Day You Came Along; Jamaica Shout; Heartbreak Blues; Happy Feet; Rhythm Crazy; Ol’ Man River; Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day; Ain’t Cha Glad; I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song; It Sends Me; I Ain’t Got Nobody.

Coleman Hawkins, Clarinet/Tenor Sax; Henry Allen, Russell Smith, Bobby Stark, Trumpets; Jack Purvis, Trumpet/Vocals; Muggsy Spanier, Cornet; Glenn Miller, Claude Jones, Dicky Wells, Trombones; J.C. Higginbotham, Trombone/Vocals; Adrian Rollini, Baritone Sax; Pee Wee Russell, Clarinet; Jimmy Dorsey, Hilton Jefferson, Russell Procope, Clarinets/Alto Saxes; Red McKenzie, Comb/Vocals; Fran Froeba, Jack Russin, Horace Henderson, Pianos; Eddie Condon, Banjo; Jack Bland, Bernard Addison, Guitars; Will Johnson, Guitar/Vocals; Pops Foster, Al Morgan, John Kirby, Upright Basses; Gene Krupa, Charles Kegley, Josh Billings, Walter Johnson, Drums.

CD 2—What Harlem is to Me (TT: 59:09 1934-36): On the Sunny Side of the Street; Lullaby; Lady Be Good; Lost in a Fog; Honeysuckle Rose; Some of These Days; After You’ve Gone; I Only Have Eyes for You; I Wish I Were Twins; Hands Across the Table; Blue Moon; Avalon; What a Difference a Day Made; Stardust; Chicago; Meditation; What Harlem is to Me; Netcha’s Dream; Love Cries; Sorrow.

Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Sax/Piano; Henk Hinrichs, George van Helvoirt, Arthur Briggs, Noel Chilboust, Pierre Allier, Jack Bulterman, George van Helvoirt, Trumpets; Marcel Thielmans, Guy Paquinet, Trombones; Ernst Hoellerhagen, Clarinet/Alto Sax; Wim Poppink, Clarinet/Alto Sax/Baritone Sax; Andre van den Ouderaa, Clarinet/Tenor Sax/Violin; André Ekyan, Charles Lisee, Alto Saxes; Alix Combelle, Hugo Peritz, Omer de Cock, Tenor Saxes; Buck Washington, Stanley Black, Theo Uden Masman, Stéphane Grappelli, Nico De Rooy, Ernest Berner, Pianos; Albert Harris, Jack Pet, Django Reinhardt, Billy Toffel, Guitars; Tiny Winters, Tomy Limbach, Eugene D’Hellemmene, Toon Diepenbroek, James Gobalet, Upright Basses; Kees Kranenburg, Maurice Chailloux, Benny Peritz, Drums; Anny de Reuver, Vocals.

CD 3—Lamentation (TT: 53:25 1936-38): Tiger Rag; It May Not Be True; I Wanna Go Back to Harlem; Consolation; A Strange Fact; Original Dixieland One-Step; Smiles; Something is Gonna Give Me Away; Honeysuckle Rose; Crazy Rhythm; Out of Nowhere; Sweet Georgia Brown; Lamentation; Devotion; Star Dust; Well, All Right Then; Blues Evermore; Dear Old Southland; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans.

Coleman Hawkins, Piano/Tenor Sax; Jack Bulterman, George van Helvoirt, Trumpets; Benny Carter, Trumpet/Alto Sax; Alix Combelle, Clarinet; Ernst Hoellerhagen, Clarinet/Alto Sax; Wim Poppink, Clarinet/Alto Sax/Baritone Sax; Andre van den Ouderaa, Clarinet/Tenor Sax/Violin; Sal Doof, Andre Ekyan, Alto Saxes; Hugo Peritz, Omer de Cock, Tenor Saxes; Ernest Bener, Nico de Rooy, Stéphane Grappelli, Freddy Johnson, Pianos; Billy Toffel, Fritz Reinders, Django Reinhardt, Guitars; James Gobalet, Jack Pet, Eugene d’Hellemmes, Upright Basses; Benny Peritz, Kees Kranenburg, Tommy Benford, Maurice van Cleef, Drums; Anny de Reuver, Vocals.

CD 4—Bouncing With Bean (TT: 59:19 1938-40): I Know That You Know; When Budda Smiles; Swinging in the Groove; The Darktown Strutter’s Ball; My Melancholy Baby; Meet Doctor Foo; Fine Dinner; She’s Funny That Way; Body and Soul; It’s Tight Like That; Easy Rider; Scratch My Back; Save it, Pretty Mama; When Day is Done; The Sheik of Araby; My Blue Heaven; Bouncing With Bean; How Long, How Long Blues; Shake it and Break It; A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody.

Coleman Hawkins, Billy Ternent, Tenor Saxes; Benny Carter, Trumpet/Alto Sax; George Swift, Stan Roderick, Stanley Howard, Tommy Lindsay, Joe Guy, Trumpets; Woolf Philips, Jack Bentley, Earl Hardy, J.C. Higginbotham, Trombones; Danny Polo, Clarinet; Benny Daniels, Leslie Gilbert, Clarinets/Alto Saxes; Freddy Schweitzer, Joe Crossman, Clarinets/Alto Saxes/Tenor Saxes; Jackie Fields, Eustis Moore, Alto Saxes; Freddy Johnson, Billy Hill, Gene Rodgers, Joe Sullivan, Pianos; Al Thomas, Lawrence Lucie, Guitars; Ulysses Livingston, Guitar/Vocals; Bruce Trent, William Oscar Smith, Artie Shapiro, Johnny Williams, Upright Basses; Maurice van Cleef, Lew Stevenson, Arthur Herbert, George Wettling, Walter Johnson, Drums; Thelma Carpenter, Jeanne Burns, Joe Turner, Vocals.

CD 5—Blues Changes (TT: 63:10 1940-43): Pom Pom; Dedication; Passin’ it Around; Serenade to a Sleeping Beauty; Rocky Comfort; Forgive a Fool; Esquire Bounce; Boff Boff (Mop Mop); My Ideal; Esquire Blues; Voodte; How Deep is the Ocean; Hawkins Barrel House; Stumpy; Lover Come Back to Me; Blues Changes; Crazy Rhythm; Get Happy; The Man I Love.

Coleman Hawkins, Kermit Scott, Tenor Saxes; Tommy Stevenson, Joe Guy, Tommy Lindsay, Nelson Bryant, Cootie Williams, Bill Coleman, Trumpets; Benny Carter, Trumpet/Alto Sax; William Cato, Sandy Williams, Claude Jones, Trombones; Eustis Moore, Jackie Fields, Ernie Powell, Alto Saxes; Danny Polo, Edmund Hall, Andy Fitzgerald, Clarinets; Joe Sullivan, Gene Rodgers, Art Tatum, Ellis Larkins, Eddie Heywood, Pianos; Bernard Addison, Gene Fields, Al Casey, Jimmy Shirley, Guitars; Ulysses Livingston, Guitar/Vocals; Artie Shapiro, John Kirby, Billy Taylor, Upright Basses; Oscar Pettiford, Bass; George Wettling, Sid Catlett, J.C. Heard, Shelly Manne, Max Roach, Drums; Joe Turner, Gladys Madden, Vocals.

CD 6—Imagination (TT: 58:27 1943-44): Sweet Lorraine; I Only Have Eyes for You; ‘S Wonderful; I’m in the Mood for Love; Bean At the Met; Woodyn’ You; Bu-Dee-Daht; Yesterdays; Ol’ Man River; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Flame Thrower; Imagination; Night and Day; Cattin’ At Keynote; Disorder At the Border; Feeling Zero; Rainbow Mist; Pick-Up Boys; Porgy.

Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Don Byas, Ray Abrams, Tenor Saxes; Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Vic Coulsen, Ed Vanderveer, Emmet Berry, Charlie Shavers, Trumpets; Leo Parker, Leonard Lowry, Walter Foots Thomas, Alto Saxes; Georgie Auld, Alto Sax/Tenor Sax; Budd Johnson, Baritone Sax; Eddie Heywood, Teddy Wilson, Clyde Hart, Johnny Guarnieri, Bill Rowland, Pianos; Hy White, Guitar; Oscar Pettiford, Billy Taylor, Mack Shopnick, Israel Crosby, Basses; Shelly Manne, Cozy Cole, Max Roach, Specs Powell, Drums.

CD 7—Battle of the Saxes (TT: 66:46 1944): On the Sunny Side of the Street; Three Little Words; Battle of the Saxes; Louise; Make Believe; Don’t Blame Me; Just One of Those Things; Hallelujah; Step on It; Riding on 52nd Street; Memories of You; Out to Lunch; In the Hush of the Night; Look Out Jack; Everyman for Himself; I’m Yours; Under a Blanket of Blue; Beyond the Blue Horizon.

Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Walter Foots Thomas, Tenor Saxes; Charlie Shavers, Jonah Jones, Buck Clayton, Trumpets; Tab Smith, Hilton Jefferson, Alto Saxes; Harry Carney, Baritone Sax; Edmund Hall, Clarinet; Eddie Barefield, Clarinet/Alto Sax; Johnny Guarnieri, Teddy Wilson, Clyde Hart, Pianos; Tiny Grimes, Guitar; Al Lucas, John Kirby, Oscar Pettiford, Milt Hinton, Slam Stewart, Basses; Sid Catlett, Denzil Best, Cozy Cole, Drums.

CD 8—On the Bean (TT: 57:44 1944-45): A Shanty in Old Shanty Town; My Man; El Salon de Gutbucket; Embraceable You; Undecided; Recollections; Drifting on a Reed; Flyin’ Hawk; On the Bean; Sportsman’s Hop; Bean Stalking; Ladies Lullaby; The Night Ramble; Leave My Heart Alone; Hawk’s Variations, Part 1; Hawk’s Variations, Part 2; April in Paris; Rifftide; Stardust; Stuffy.

Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Sax; Buck Clayton, Charlie Shavers, Howard McGhee, Trumpets; Thelonious Monk, Teddy Wilson, Sir Charles Thompson, Pianos; Allan Reuss, Guitar; Slam Stewart, Billy Taylor, Edward Robinson, Oscar Pettiford, Basses; Denzil Best, Drums.

CD 9—Bean Soup (TT: 62:16 1945-48): Hollywood Stampede; I’m Through With Love; What is There to Say; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Too Much of a Good Thing; Bean Soup; Someone to Watch Over Me; It’s the Talk of the Town; Just a Riff; What’s Happenin’; Mop de Mop Mop; My Ideal; Indian Summer; Phantomesque; April in Paris; How Strange; Half Step Down Please; Angel Face; Jumpin’ for Jane; Picasso.

Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Sax; Miles Davis, Howard McGhee, Dick Vance, Charlie Shavers, Buck Clayton, Fats Navarro, Trumpets; Vic Dickenson, Tyree Glenn, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Trombones; Hilton Jefferson, Budd Johnson, Alto Saxes; Harry Carney, Baritone Sax; Sir Charles Thompson, Billy Taylor, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Hank Jones, Pianos; Allan Reuss, Al Casey, John Collins, Chuck Wayne, Guitars; Oscar Pettiford, John Simmons, Chubby Jackson, Marion de Veta, Curly Russell, Jack Lesberg, Basses; Denzil Best, Sid Catlett, Shadow Wilson, Max Roach, Drums.

CD 10—Bean’s Talking Again (TT: 66:31 1949-53): It’s Only a Paper Moon; Sih-Sah; Bean’s Talking Again; Bah-u-Bah; I Surrender Dear; Sophisticated Lady; (It’s No) Sin; And So to Sleep Again; Spellbound; Lost in a Fog; Carioca; Midnight Sun; If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight); I Can’t Get Started; My Blue Heaven; Honeysuckle Rose; Organ Grinder’s Swing; Perdido; Sweethearts on Parade; Ruby; Song From Moulin Rouge (Where is Your Heart).

Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Sax/Piano; Benny Harris, Idrees Sulieman, Joe Wilder, Trumpets; Rex Stewart, Cornet; Nat Peck, Matthew Gee, Tyree Glenn, Trombones; Hubert Fol, Alto Sax; Cecil Payne, Baritone Sax; Danny Mendelsohn, Bill Doggett, Keyboards; Jean-Paul Mengeon, Duke Jordan, Sanford Gold, Claude Hopkins, Pianos; Al Casimenti, George Barnes, Billy Bauer, Guitars; Pierre Michelot, Conrad Henry, Trigger Alpert, Arvell Shaw, Basses; Kenny Clarke, Arthur Taylor, Bunny Shawker, Jimmy Crawford, Cozy Cole, Drums; Paul Nelson Orchestra; Neal Hefti, Conductor.