Hawk Video 1962

[Michael Weiss]

From dailymotion.com

[JSngry]

My god....

[brownie]

This superb video was visible for all to see last week in the Colerman Hawkins thread

[Claude]

Haha!

The world is so small. That video on the website is my VHS tape from 1990's, that I digitized a couple of years ago and shared with some jazz collector friends on the internet. I have no idea who uploaded it.

At the beginnung you can see the number "0:48", which is the position of the VHS tape where the Hawk recordings starts. I didn't know how to suppress it on the TV display. I had problems making a clean B/W conversion with the DivX encoder and had to try many settings first, but it turned out pretty good.

I have a couple more rare jazz videos that I recorded from the "Jazz 6" show that was aired every monday night on the french station M6, in the 1990's.

Edited May 26, 2006 by Claude

[Dmitry]

This is just wonderful! Thank you for posting the link.

[Claude]

More videos uploaded by the same user "alternativa" were created by me, from my VHS collection. The info (date, location) indicated on the website is from the filenames that I gave the videos. Not sure if everything is correct.

Cannonball: http://www.dailymotion.com/alternativa/video/70685

It's a german TV studio recording from 1963, that was broadcasted on the german TV station 3Sat a couple of years ago.

Coltrane: http://www.dailymotion.com/alternativa/video/51097

Coltrane and Dolphy 1961 in a german TV studio. The picture quality is poor, it has probably been converted from NTSC for the VHS PAL tape. Taken from an italian "VIDJAZZ" tape that has various Coltrane and Miles TV performances.

Bird & Diz: http://www.dailymotion.com/alternativa/video/60094

Monk: http://www.dailymotion.com/alternativa/video/55675

Both are from a VIDJAZZ tape that collects a number of 1950's and 60's TV performances

Edited May 26, 2006 by Claude

[Soul Stream]

Wow. Isn't that as "bebop" as anything Parker ever played?

[mrjazzman]

Claude, that was superb, thanks a lot.........................and that was in '62??????

[Claude]

Yes, according to the discographical details I found at the time.

This website also states 1962:

Hawkins (ts), George Arvanitas (p), Mickey Baker (g), Jimmy Woode (b), Kansas Fields (dr). Filmed 1962 in Brussels.

http://www.jazzrecords.com/jazzbooks/video7.htm

[JSngry]

Mickey Baker & Hawk together, feeding off of each other's shit. Amazing, simply amazing.

Gotta tell you, that might vbe some of the best Hawk I've ever heard. Definitely the best blues playing by Hawk I've ever heard.

Blows a lot of preconceptions, including mine, waaaaaaaaaay out of the water...

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

wait a min. is this the bean vid. thats double on that dex vid from montemare- i have this tape--- the guitarplayers wearing shades? is this the same one

my friend keeps bragging how theres this new download server and hes been getting bootleg kenny dorham videos, miles videos, and like literally hundreds of other rare jazz films all online. do you guys know about that. too bad my computer sux or i would like to see some too.

but i am telling you coleman hawkins is the greatest. he is the godfather of jazz. you know what the greatest jazz group of all time would be? Coleman Hawkins, Donald Byrd, Big John Patton, and Master Higgins

[Soul Stream]

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/searc...rke/video/86203

Check this Kenny Clarke/Lucky Thompson clip....who in the hell is that badass female piano player!?

[MartyJazz]

I have this Hawk in Brussels in '62 on a Shanachie commercial videotape titled "Tenor Legends" that has the second half devoted to a Dexter Gordon appearance at the Club Montmartre in '69. I am in the process of converting all my jazz videos, commercial and bootleg, to DVD so I recently saw this particular Hawk program and I agree it is excellent.

[Larry Kart]

It might be Alice McLeod, later Alice Coltrane.

[brownie]

It is Alice McLeod.

She was in Paris around 1959 to study with Bud Powell. She played at the time with Lucky Thompson.

[AllenLowe]

Hawk was very much effected by the changes in the early 1960s - witness, of course, his collaborations with Sonny Rollins (Paul Bley has very funny stories about Sonny, at that session, trying to lose Hawkins, who asked Bley to cue him in) - also, check out Hawk's playing on the Freedom Now/Max Roach sessions, also on the Abbey Lincoln Candid date, in which he does some outside playing - definitely a force to be reckoned with - I've posted this before, but Barry Harris told me that, one night while he was working with Hawkins, Hawkins took a chorus on All The Things You Are that made Barry realize, he said, that he'd spent too much time idolizing Bud and Bird, because here was someone who had survived and kept on going forward -

Edited May 27, 2006 by AllenLowe

[Soul Stream]

It is Alice McLeod.

She was in Paris around 1959 to study with Bud Powell. She played at the time with Lucky Thompson.

I thought that might be her....just because it looked like her!