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Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins is a 1962 collaborative album uniting Jazz legend Duke Ellington with Coleman Hawkins, described by All Music as one of the greatest tenor saxophonists of all time.[1] The album was reissued on CD in 1995 & again in 2007, the latter in a digipak, both reissues have an additional track. In 1995, the New York Times described it as "one of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960's".[2]
[edit] Track listing
All tracks composed by Duke Ellington, unless otherwise indicated.
- "Limbo Jazz" – 5:15
- "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 5:56
- "Ray Charles' Place" – 4:05
- "Wanderlust" (Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 5:00
- "You Dirty Dog" – 4:20
- "Self-Portrait (of the Bean)" – 3:53
- "The Jeep is Jumpin'" (Ellington, Hodges) – 4:50
- "The Ricitic" – 5:53
- "Solitude"[3] (Eddie DeLange, Ellington, Mills) – 5:51
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Performance
[edit] Production
- Joe Alper – photography
- Jason Claiborne – graphic design
- Michael Cuscuna – liner notes, reissue producer
- Stanley Dance – liner notes
- Hollis King – art direction
- Erick Labson – digital remastering
- Bob Thiele – producer
- Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
