Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Coleman Hawkins

Ken Burns JAZZ Collection, Coleman Hawkins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 2000)
• Original Release Date: November 7, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000050I3Q
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,001 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Stampede (with Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra)

2. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight (with The Mound City Blue Blowers)

3. Queer Notions (with Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra)

4. It's The Talk Of The Town (with Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra)

5. Honeysuckle Rose

6. Body and Soul

7. The Man I Love

8. Bean At The Met

9. Woody 'n' You

10. I Mean You

11. Bean And The Boys

12. Stuffy

13. Picasso

14. La Rosita

15. Ruby, My Dear

16. Just Friends

17. Crazy Rhythm

18. Driva Man

19. Self Portrait Of The Bean

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good overview from a huge discography, November 17, 2002

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J. Powers "joinery1" (Basehor, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Coleman Hawkins (Audio CD)

Coleman Hawkins released so much music over his lifetime in so many styles of jazz that this is a good sampler. As far as the other reviewers complaining about the crackling, I think it's about time a company reissue 78 RPM-era recordings without removing the crackle and pops. Early jazz and blues was recorded in the kitchens of after-hours joints while breakfast was being cooked... that's the bacon sizzling in the background you hear. How else could Jimmy Rushing and Big Joe Turner maintain the girth that made them famous?
Seriously, the surface noise is a bit distracting, but a lot of those remasters where it is removed takes away subtle shades and nuances in the music. Remember too, that these sides were recorded prior to the use of magnetic tape. I'm sure that for a series like Ken Burns Jazz, which stood to make more money than any other jazz reissue campaign, the labels did not hesitate to use their best, most pristine masters available. As far as the packaging, well, yes, that could have been more attractive.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Overview of The Hawk, December 18, 2000

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J. Christmas "joshua-one" (New Brunswick, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Coleman Hawkins (Audio CD)

This is a nice, tasteful collection of Hawkins's music. I especially appreciated the inclusion of "Ruby My Dear" from the Thelonious Monk album "Monk's Music", which gives one the chance to hear Hawk's emotive tenor in an atypical context.

The packaging is terrible though, as it is on all of the Ken Burns series. Jazz albums are supposed to have attractive cover art.

4.0 out of 5 stars The "Bean" Is In The House, May 6, 2009

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Alfred Johnson (boston, ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Coleman Hawkins (Audio CD)

I admit to a very spotty interest in jazz over my life time and while I have always loved those 1940's swing bands, like that of Benny Goodman, it was only with the celebration of the centennial of Duke Ellington's birth in 1999 that I got a little more serious about this genre. Ken Burns' "Jazz" series for PBS gave me another boost. Still and all there are huge gaps in my knowledge and appreciation of the classic jazz tradition. This is a little odd in that there is a certain convergence between jazz and my favorite musical genre, the blues. The artist under review here exemplifies both those traditions, the "max daddy" tenor sax player Coleman Hawkins, who was the consummate professional and innovator on that instrument back in the days. All others, including the great Lester Young and Ben Webster, fall in behind this master. That much I do know.

A part of the Burns "Jazz" educational process a series of individual CDs featuring the classic works of the various artists featured in the documentaries were produced. Here the best of Hawkins, starting back in the 1920's, is given a full workout. The "best" here -no question- "Body And Soul", "I Mean You" and the later jumped up "Driva Man" (with the legendary Max Roach on drums). Wow.