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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.
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."
Track listing.
All tracks composed by Duke Ellington, except where noted.
1. "Limbo Jazz" –
the Village Vanguard in Manhattan. In 1960 he recorded on Max Roach's "We Insist!" suite, a key jazz document which anticipated the political and social linkages that would develop between jazz and the civil rights movement during the coming decade. At the behest of Impulse Records producer Bob Thiele, Hawkins availed himself of a long-desired opportunity to record with Duke Ellington for the 1962 album "Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" alongside Ellington band stalwarts Johnny Hodges, Lawrence Brown, Ray Nance, and Harry Carney as well