TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.5434
Coleman Hawkins Album Rankings
1
Ignoring past reissues (including a definitive two-CD set from 1995 that had 40 recordings), RCA came out with this 19-selection single CD in 1996; all of the performances were in the previous reissue
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2
Hawkins was always an open-minded musician.
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3
This set seems to have the word "fad" written all over it, but surprisingly it is a major success.
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4
A superior session with Hawkins,Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis(ts), and others.
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5
The effortless approach and delivery of every track on the 1960 album At Ease With Coleman Hawkins proves to be both its most admirable asset and its most aggravating shortcoming.
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6
W/ Ben Webster. These aren't encounters in the confrontational sense, but a merger of great musical minds.
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11
This CD is a major surprise.
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21
In contrast to Hawkins's sometimes sleepy studio albums from this era, his live performances were generally quite exciting.
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28
With cooperation from the Verve and Columbia Legacy catalogs, the Ken Burns Jazz series on CD individually spotlights the musical excellence of 22 jazz originators whose careers and influence are exp
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49
Of borderline interest to Coleman Hawkins fans, this odd 1963 session surrounds him with strings arranged (not too creatively) by Frank Hunter.
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50
A true connoisseur, Sonny Rollins concentrates almost entirely upon the year 1944 as he selects Coleman Hawkins tracks for this volume in Verve's Ultimate series.
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55
Although Hawkins had been a major tenor stylist for over 35 years by the time of this recording, he had never felt all that comfortable playing blues, preferring to dig his harmonic talents into more
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58
Hawkins's last strong recording finds the veteran, 43 years after his recording debut with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, improvising creatively on a wide variety of material on this CD, ranging from "In
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63
A very nice digital reissue of a very congenial and nicely played Coleman Hawkins Quartet release.
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