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| 1. | I'll Never Be the Same
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| 2. | When Day Is Done
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| 3. | Under a Blanket of Blue
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| 4. | More Than You Know
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| 5. | Moonglow
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| 6. | Just a Gigolo
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| 7. | Speak Low
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Jazz / Mainstream Jazz; Bop; Swing
Recorded: Feb 28, 1961
Coleman Hawkins - Sax (Tenor)
Andrew Cyrille - Drums
Kenny Burrell - Guitar
Ron Carter - Bass
Ronnell Bright - Piano
"I was the engineer on the recording sessions and I also made the masters for the original LP issues of these albums. Since the advent of the CD, other people have been making the masters. Mastering is the final step in the process of creating the sound of the finished product. Now, thanks to the folks at the Concord Music Group who have given me the opportunity to remaster these albums, I can present my versions of the music on CD using modern technology. I remember the sessions well, I remember how the musicians wanted to sound, and I remember their reactions to the playbacks. Today, I feel strongly that I am their messenger."
---Rudy Van Gelder
Despite the inherent modesty of its title, The Hawk Relaxes is far more than merely a tenor saxophonist - albeit one of the greatest who ever lived - at his ease. Recorded for Prestige's Moodsville subsidiary, the album presents Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969), paterfamilias of the tenor and one its master balladeers.
As he grew older, Hawkins often made it a point to perform with much younger musicians, in order to keep his work fresh. Pianist Ronnell Bright, 30 years old at the time of this recording, was the oldest of Hawkins's accompanists herein, while drummer Andrew Cyrille was, at just 21, the junior partner. With the multifaceted guitarist Kenny Burrell and bassist Ron Carter, at the dawn of what would be a ubiquitously brilliant career, rounding out a highly simpatico group, Hawkins adroitly weaves his way rhapsodically through seven timeless popular songs that lend themselves to his signature harmonic brilliance.
* Don Schlitten - Cover Design, Photography
* Esmond Edwards - Supervisor
* Joe Goldberg - Liner Notes, Original Liner Notes
* Nick Phillips - Reissue Producer
* Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer, Liner Notes, Remastering
* Stuart Kremsky - Reissue Production Assistance
While Hawkins's recordings in the early '60s for Swingville tended to swing (not too suprisingly), his Moodsville dates were dominated by overly relaxed treatments of ballads. That is the case with this CD which finds the great tenor-saxophonist sounding alright on melody statements of such tunes as "When Day Is Done," "More than You Know" and "Moonglow" but failing to develop his solos very much beyond the opening themes. The sameness of tempos makes this affair chiefly viable as background music, although of a high quality within that genre.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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