Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk in Hi-Fi

[mjzee]

Amazon - August 10

[brownie]

I have been enjoying this ever since it came out in 2001 (with all the additional alternate tracks)

[king ubu]

So Sony instead of mining their own (or rather: Columbia's) vaults is re-re-re-issuing some RCA (used to be BMG) material, smart move... sure they'll sell loads and loads of this oh-so-new title!

Same as Brownie, I've got the Bluebird First Editions reissue.

[mjzee]

It give me hope that their reissue program still lives.

[JSngry]

I don't think I'll live long enough to not be taken aback by seeing RCA Victor material issued by Columbia.

[jazzbo]

mj, did Mark Wilder remaster this? I love what he did with Tijuana Moods.

[jazzbo]

Seems Legacy is also reissuing Someday My Prince will Come (Miles Davis, Columbia) and an RCA "Blues by Basie".

[BruceH]

I find some of the string arrangements on this album to be a bit of a drag, though Hawk's playing sounds fine. I'll probably get it someday, as I seem to be buying every damn Coleman Hawkins album lately.

[J.A.W.]

I find some of the string arrangements on this album to be a bit of a drag, though Hawk's playing sounds fine.

I agree; to my ears this is not the most interesting stuff Hawkins has ever done

[medjuck]

I've always had a soft spot for it because my sister gave it to me for a birthday present when it was new and I was hardly into jazz yet. Have no idea why she picked it and after 50 years I doubt if she remembers. IIRC one of teh songs is based on a riff he first used in one of the numbers he recorded with the Count Basie band.

Edited August 9, 2010 by medjuck

[crisp]

Seems Legacy is also reissuing Someday My Prince will Come (Miles Davis, Columbia) and an RCA "Blues by Basie".

The worn LP cover look of these made me wonder if they were a continuation of that series that Sony France did a while ago. In any case, the whole lot are up for preorder on Amazon France, with a release date of September 6. The other titles are:

Take Ten by Paul Desmond

Cool (aka She Was Too Good To Me) by Chet Baker

Conquistador by Maynard Ferguson

[brownie]

Hope the new issue gives proper credit to Lee Friedlander who took the cover image on the original LP

Friedlander's name disappeared from the credits on the Bluebird reissue

[king ubu]

Saw that one in a store yesterday - it's one of those cheapos with just one-fold booklets and no liners... nothing new about it I guess, just a cheap re-packing of an older, presumably OOP disc (others in the series include albums by Miles, Brubeck, Garner, Bill Evans etc).

And among the new ones that showed up was also a 2CD set of Mingus "Tijuana Moods" - hence presumably also the Bluebird First Editions version (the "right" one, there was an RCA Gold Series 2CD set that freaked up).