Coleman Hawkins
Hawkins! Alive! At The Village Gate (LP)
LabelVerve RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Insert and obi included.
August 1962, a Greenwich Village basement, and a working quartet doing what it did every night. Coleman Hawkins had Tommy Flanagan at the piano, Major Holley humming along with his own bowed bass lines, and Eddie Locke on drums, and the atmosphere is entirely that of a club rather than a studio: long tempos, room to stretch, an audience audible throughout. Hawkins is in ferocious form, that famous vibrato roughened by age into something closer to a growl, working through standards he had been playing for thirty years and finding new things in all of them.
Japanese Verve pressing. Live Hawkins in a small room, which is where he was always at his best.
Release notes
Recorded at Art D'Lugoff's Village Gate, New York City, Aug. 13 and 15, 1962.
| A1 | All The Things You Are | ||
| A2 | Josh Fit The Battle Of Jericho | ||
| B1 | Mack The Knife | ||
| B2 | Talk Of The Town |
- Major Holley
- Bass
- John Murello
- Cover, Design
- Ed Locke
- Drums
- Frank Greenwald
- Engineer
- Tom Hidley
- Engineer
- Val Valentin
- Engineer [Director of Engineering]
- Tommy Flanagan
- Piano
- Creed Taylor
- Producer
- Coleman Hawkins
- Tenor Saxophone
