Meets Coleman Hawkins

Digitally re-mastered and expanded edition including five bonus tracks. Even though Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins had both been well-known Jazzmen since the early 1920's and continued to be successful until their deaths, their only recorded encounter was the LP DUKE ELLINGTON MEETS COLEMAN HAWKINS, taped in 1962 and presented here in it's entirety. Five further songs consisting of Hawkins performing compositions by Duke or from the Ellington band's songbook have been added here as bonus tracks. Among them is the saxophonist's rarely heard only existing reading of the beautiful 'The Star-Crossed Lovers', from the Ellington-Strayhorn Shakespearean Suite SUCH SWEET THUNDER.