''Sonny Meets Hawk!'' is a 1963 album by jazz saxophonist
Sonny Rollins, with
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Yanow, Scot"Coleman Hawkins: Artist Biography" AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2013. One of the first p ...
appearing as guest artist. It was recorded at RCA Victor Studio "B" in New York City on July 15 and 18, 1963. The album features some of Rollins's most avant-garde playing.
The album marks the first time the two saxophonists had entered a recording studio together, although they had appeared on stage together briefly that same year at the
Newport Jazz Festival
The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hir ...
.
[Original liner notes by producer George Avakian]
Track listing
#"
Yesterdays" (
Jerome Kern
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,
Otto Harbach
Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of nearly 50 musical comedies and operettas. Harbach collaborated as lyricist or librettist with many of the leading B ...
) – 5:13
#"
All the Things You Are" (Kern,
Oscar Hammerstein II) – 9:33
#"
Summertime" (
DuBose Heyward,
George Gershwin
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,
Ira Gershwin) – 5:58
#"
Just Friends
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" (
John Klenner
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,
Sam M. Lewis) – 4:40
#"
Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)
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" – (
Jimmy Davis,
Roger "Ram" Ramirez, James Sherman) – 8:54
#"At McKies'" (Rollins) – 7:03
Personnel
*Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
*
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Yanow, Scot"Coleman Hawkins: Artist Biography" AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2013. One of the first p ...
– tenor saxophone
*
Paul Bley
Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ...
– piano
*
Roy McCurdy – drums
*
Bob Cranshaw – bass (tracks 1, 2, and 5) – recorded July 15
*
Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes (November 3, 1935 – April 15, 2020) was an American jazz double bassist and violinist.
After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music s ...
– bass (tracks 3, 4, and 6) – recorded July 18
References
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Sonny Rollins albums
RCA Victor albums
1963 albums
Albums produced by George Avakian