Essential Sides 1929-1939

Coleman Hawkins - Essential Sides 1929-1939

Essential Sides 1929-1939
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Artist: Coleman Hawkins
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Jsp Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. That's How I Feel Today
  2. Six Or Seven Times
  3. Plain Dirt
  4. Gee, Ain't I Good To You
  5. I'd Love It
  6. The Way I Feel Today
  7. Miss Hannah
  8. Peggy
  9. Wherever there's Will, Baby
  10. Hello, Lola
  11. One Hour
  12. Dismal Dan
  13. Poor Richard
  14. Down Georgia Way
  15. Goodbye Blues
  16. Cloudy Skies
  17. Got Another Sweetie
  18. Bugle Call Rag
  19. Dee Blues
  20. Georgia On My Mind
  21. I Can't Believe You In Love With Me
  22. The Darktown Strutter's Ball
  23. You Rascal, You
  24. Someday, Sweetheart
  25. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Music CD 2
  1. Nocturne
  2. Somebody Stole Gaberiel's Horn
  3. Pastorale
  4. Bugle Call Rag
  5. Arabesque
  6. Fanfare
  7. Sweet Sorrow Blues
  8. Music At Midnight
  9. Sweet Sue - Just You
  10. Air In D Flat
  11. Donegal Cradle Song
  12. Firebird
  13. Music At Sunrise
  14. How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
  15. The River's Taking Care Of Me
  16. Ain'tcha Got Music?
  17. Stringin' Along On A Shoe String
  18. Shadows On The Swanee
  19. The Day You Came Along
  20. Jamaica Shout
  21. Heartbreak Blues
  22. Hush My Mouth
  23. You're Gonna Lose Your Girl
  24. Dark Clouds
  25. My Galveston Gal
  26. Georgia Jubilee
Music CD 3
  1. Junk Man
  2. Ol' Pappy
  3. Emaline
  4. It Sends Me
  5. I Ain't Got Nobody
  6. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
  7. Lullaby
  8. Lady Be Good
  9. Lost In A Fog
  10. Honeysuckle Rose
  11. Some Of These Days
  12. After You've Gone
  13. I Only Have Eyes For You
  14. I Wish I Were Twins
  15. Hands Across The Table
  16. Blue Moon
  17. Avalon
  18. What A Difference A Day Made
  19. Star Dust
  20. Chicago
  21. Meditation
  22. What Harlem Is To Me
  23. Netcha's Dream
  24. Love Cries
  25. Sorrow
  26. Tigar Rag
Music CD 4
  1. It May Not Be True
  2. I Wanna Go Back To Harlem
  3. Consolation
  4. A Strange Fact
  5. Original Dixieland One-Step
  6. Smiles
  7. Something Is Going To Give Me Away
  8. Honeysuckle Rose
  9. Crazy Rhythm
  10. Out Of Nowhere
  11. Sweet Georgia Brown
  12. Lamentation
  13. Devotion
  14. Somebody Loves Me
  15. Mighty Like The Blues
  16. Pardon Me, Pretty Baby
  17. My Buddy
  18. Star Dust
  19. Well All Right Then
  20. Blues Evermore
  21. Dear Old Southland
  22. 'Way Down
  23. I Know That You Know
  24. When Buddha Smiles
  25. Swinging In The Groove
  26. The Darktown Strutter's Ball
  27. My Melancholy Baby

Music reviews of Essential Sides 1929-1939

Music Review: Priceless!
Rating: 5 Stars

If you like Fletcher Henderson, you're gonna love this! Most of these tracks feature a sound very much like Fletch: upbeat, snappy numbers rendered with authority and panache. There is a startling level of interplay between the players that has the listener finding something new with repeat playings. The first cuts are a revelation. The early Chocolate Dandies (including Benny Carter, Fats Waller, Rex Stewart, J.C. Higgenbothamn, among others) produce tighter, more complex playing than any Fletch records from the same period (1929). And Hawk soars to heights he would not produce for Henderson for several years.

The disks work their way through the next decade, with McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Mound City Blowers, Henry Allen All Stars, Benny Carter's Orchestra, and other small goups headed by Hawkins. The Jack Purvis Band swings harder than most of the more famous swing bands that followed. The latter disks feature tracks from his European stay where he plays with some English, French and Dutch jazz bands which seem to be playing their hearts out in honor of Coleman (and, it seems to me, there's exceptional good cheer in Hawk's playing in response). Throughout the disks, one great solo is followed by another, often better. We watch the development of the Hawk as he lays down the vocabulary that was the foundation for most tenor sax men to follow. Not to mention the flawless, rich tone and exciting raw power that characterized his earlier years. This is music that excites in a way that will startle those who only know Hawkins from his later ballad and standard dominated work.

This must have been a true labor of love for Ted Kendall (acolyte of the famed John R.T. Davies). He did a flat out AMAZING job of remastering from the 78's. Even the 1929 sides sound like they were recorded in the fifties. You can distinguish the individual instruments quite clearly, the horns have that snap that goes missing when Kendall's lessers carelessly apply noise reduction. Yet, except for a couple of the European tracks, there is but a faint hint of hiss, and NO pops or tics.

Despite their being over 100 tunes, collected over a mere 10 year span, there are no out-takes, alternates, or other redundancies. And they are all highly listenable at worst to jaw-dropping at best. Kendall did not just round 'em up and slap 'em down (like some European jazz collections who shall remain nameless, Proper Box), he clearly chose with a golden ear what to include. He produced a set of CD's that are highly listenable all the way through, every time.

If you have the good fortune to own the Charlie Parker box set from JSP, you already know that they adhere to the highest of standards. And I like that each disk is safely esconced in it's own full sized jewel box, with each containing a sheet giving full musical lineups, recording dates, and a succinct but informative little essay relating to the tracks on the individual disk. Speaking of the JSP Parker set, I note that it is no longer available on Amazon. If I were you, I would snag this set now lest it too should disappear.

I've heard it rumored that Ted is working on another Hawkins box set covering the next decade. Hope the sales of this one encourages that.

THIS MUSIC ROCKS MORE THAN ROCK DOES!
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