Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins that was recorded on August 18, 1962, and released in February 1963 by Impulse! Records.[6]

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
Studio album by
Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins
ReleasedJanuary 1963 (1963-01)
RecordedAugust 18, 1962
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
GenreJazz
Length39:05
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Down Beat[2]
New Record Mirror[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]

In 1995, The New York Times called it "one of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s."[7]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Duke Ellington, except where noted.

  1. "Limbo Jazz" – 5:14
  2. "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard) – 5:56
  3. "Ray Charles' Place" – 4:04
  4. "Wanderlust" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 5:00
  5. "You Dirty Dog" – 4:19
  6. "Self-Portrait (of the Bean)" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:52
  7. "The Jeep Is Jumpin'" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 4:49
  8. "The Ricitic" – 5:51
  9. "Solitude" (Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange) (1995 CD bonus track) [8] – 5:51

Personnel

Production

  • Bob Thiele – producer
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
  • Joe Alper – photography
  • Jason Claiborne – graphic design
  • Stanley Dance – liner notes
  • Hollis King – art direction

Reissue

  • Michael Cuscuna – liner notes, reissue producer
  • Erick Labson – digital remastering

Charts
Chart performance for Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
Chart (2022) Peak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9] 67

Notes
  1. AllMusic review
  2. Milkowski, Bill (June 2013). "Money Jungle: 50 Years After the Summit" (PDF). Down Beat. p. 34. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
  3. Griffiths, David (13 July 1963). "Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 122. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. Billboard, February 9, 1963.
  7. Watrous, Peter (December 17, 1995). "Pop Briefs". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  8. CD reissue only. "Solitude" was until the 1995 CD reissue never part of the album. Originally issued on the compilation album The Definitive Jazz Scene-Volume 1 (Impulse! A-99) in the 1960s.
  9. "Offiziellecharts.de – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
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