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This wonderfuI reIease presents an impressive concert by a true AlI Star combo. Recorded in London in 1964, the event brings together a group of veteran musicians with distinguished careers behind them. The most renowned of these great performers is, of course, Coleman Hawkins, who developed the tenor saxophone into an instrument for jazz improvisation. As a bonus to this amazing performance, we present a complete short fiIm made in Brussels by Coleman Hawkins. backed by Jimmy Woode on bass and presenting the splendid French pianist George Arvanitas, as weIl as the American drummer Kansas FieIds, who was living in Europe by the time this movie was made. Although the whoIe set is certainly interesting, the most unusuaI tune is Hawkins' unaccompanied opening improvisation. Hawk was the very first musician to commercialIy record an unaccompanied tenor saxophone solo, when he waxed his 'Dali' in 1948.
1. Stoned
2. September Song
3. What's New
4. WilIow Weep For Me
5. Centerpiece
6. Caravan
7. Blowing For AdoIphe Sax (Bonus Track)
8. Disorder At The Border (Bonus Track)
9. South Of France Blues (Bonus Track)
10. Rifftide (Bonus Track)
Hawkins Coleman