Coleman Hawkins/Jack Purvis

[medjuck]

I'm trying to verify the discographical information for the sides Coleman Hawkins cut wth Jack Purvis in (I think) 1930. I finally found this information on a Purvis listing:

Jack Purvis (t,v), J.C. Higginbotham (tb,v), Castor McCord (ts), Adrian

Rollini (bsx), Frank Froeba (p), Will Johnson (gtr,v), Charles Kegley (d).

New York, April 3, 1930

Huh!! Is Castor McCord a psuedonym for Hawk?

[jazzbo]

No, if I'm remembering correctly this was determined recently NOT to be a session involving Hawkins, but McCord, who was a musician in a band associated with Purvis at the time. . . . Details are in the Jack Purvis three cd set on Jazz Oracle(that I am about ten miles away from at the moment).

[medjuck]

That's the cd from which I got this information. Actually I got it on line so so it just had the listings and not the notes. I was looking because the supposedly complete 1929- set on Affinty has no notes. I think this session is also on a Classics Hawkins disc. Sure sounds like Hawkins to me but John Chilton doesn't mention this session in his bio of Bean.

[jazzbo]

Yes, it's been attributed to Hawk, and I have it on the Affinity set and I'm sure it shows up in the Classics series. But when I last listened to it a few times when getting the Oracle cd set I could believe it was not Hawk. . . .