Verve MGV 8327

Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster · The Complete Session

Essential Jazz Classics

Personnel:
Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster (ts), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), Alvin Stoller, Stan Levey (d)

Reference: EJC55434

Bar code: 8436028694341

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This release contains the complete classic album "Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster", as well as the other six tunes from the session, originally issued on different Hawkins albums and long out-of-print anthologies.

As a further bonus, it is added four tunes from sessions recorded on both the previous and the same day by each saxophonist alone with the same rhythm section. The sessions end with each player presenting his own reading of Ill Wind.

Tracklist

01. BLUES FOR YOLANDE (6:48)
02. IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND (5:50)
03. LA ROSITA (5:06)
04. YOUD BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO (4:19)
05. PRISONER OF LOVE (4:16)
06. TANGERINE (5:24)
07. SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON (4:49)
08. MARIA (6:35) *
09. COCKTAILS FOR TWO (2:39) *
10. BLUES FOR YOLANDE (Mono Version) (6:48) *
11. LA ROSITA (Short Alternate Version) (2:37) *
12. SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON (Short Alternate Version) (2:18) *
13. MY MELANCHOLY BABY (4:08) *
14. WHERE ARE YOU (4:42) *
15. ILL WIND [Coleman Hawkins] (5:33) *
16. ILL WIND [Ben Webster] (3:31) *
17. BLUES FOR YOLANDE (Incomplete Take) (2:49) *

Album details

Total time: 78:19 min.

Tracks #1-7, originally issued as Verve MGV 8327
(*) Bonus Tracks

Personnel on tracks #1-6: Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster (ts), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b) and Alvin Stoller (d).
Recorded in Los Angeles, on October 16, 1957

Personnel on tracks #13 & 15: Same personnel, place and date but omit Ben Webster.

Personnel on tracks #14 & 16: Same personnel and place but omit Coleman Hawkins and Stan Levey replaces Alvin Stoller.
Recorded on October 15, 1957