Jukebox Hits

Jukebox Hits Artist: Erskine Hawkins
Label: Acrobat [Cit570]
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 824046401122
EAN: 0824046401122
ASIN: B0000CG9NJ


Release Date: 2003-11-25

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Tracks:

  1. Tuxedo Junction
  2. Whispering Grass
  3. Dolemite
  4. Five O'Clock Whistle
  5. Song Of The Wanderer
  6. Nona
  7. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
  8. Bicycle Bounce
  9. Don't Cry Baby
  10. Cherry
  11. Tippin' In
  12. Caldonia
  13. Fifteen Years (And I'm Still Serving Time)
  14. Sneakin' Out
  15. I've Got A Right To Cry
  16. After Hours
  17. Hawk's Boogie
  18. Gabriel's Heater
  19. Cornbread
  20. Tennessee Waltz

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Nice overview of a second tier band........2006-04-22

Jukebox Hits gives a nice overview of Erskine Hawkins' work from 1940-1950.
Hawkins and his band never hit the dizzying heights of such bands as Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, The Dorseys or Count Basey (to name a few of the superstars of the time) but was a solid working band of the era.
The style ranges from big band to swing to bebop to pop corn (Tennessee Waltz is atrociously cornball).
The musicianship is first-rate and the instrumental numbers are great but the vocal tunes are not up to the same standard.
Unfortunately some of the recordings are scratchy and/or tinny.
There are also decent liner notes and information for each song.

5 out of 5 stars the 20th century gabriel!.......2005-11-20

A great collection of swing and blues from one of the best big bands. Although they never achieved the fame Basie, Ellington, Goodman,Shaw, and others did, Hawkins kept his band together for over 25 years. He stayed current, as the disc will show, incorporating swing, blues, bop, and honkin' R&B into his music. Tuxedo junction was copied by Glen Miller almost note for note. Listen to the original and the other great swing tunes on this disc to hear one of the better big bands of the era.

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  2. Cornucopia ~ Stanley Jordan
  3. My Romance ~ Banu Gibson
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  6. Pieces of a Dream/We Are One ~ Pieces of a Dream
  7. Beyond Words ~ Exchange
  8. Yam Yam ~ Mark Turner Quintet
  9. Swallow ~ Steve Swallow
  10. Hollywood Jump ~ Eddie Reed Big Band

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