At Ease With Coleman Hawkins

Artist: Coleman Hawkins
Label: Ojc
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 025218018142
EAN: 0025218018142
ASIN: B000000YA7

Release Date: 1991-10-07

Related Categories:

Bebop General

| Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

General

| Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General

| Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General

| Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

For You, for Me, Forevermore
While We're Young
Then I'll Be Tired of You
Mighty Like a Rose
At Dawning
Trouble Is a Man
Poor Butterfly
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

Similar Items:

Night Hawk
Body & Soul
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
Pres and Teddy
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (20-Bit Master)

Customer Reviews:

As good as it gets.......2005-01-12

Years ago I had a LP of "The Hawk Talks". I was more into rock & roll back then, but I remembered Hawkin's amazing rich tone years after I ditched my turntable and records for a CD player. Naturally, as I started listening to more jazz, I wanted some Hawk for my collection.

If there is a better record out there, I have yet to hear it. The warmth, richness & elegance of Hawkin's playing hardly seem like something of this world. The supporting cast is stellar. Another reviewer put it well, there is not a wrong note on this album. Buy it, turn the lights down, and enjoy the work of a master at the top of his game.

a masterpiece of sensual music.......2004-12-10

I don't know anything about jazz. But I do know that being a woman, listening to this CD feels like I'm being sofly caressed all over by the man of my dreams. he plays the 'sexophone' so smoothly some notes sound more like whispers.. anyways you get the picture.. it is fabulous background music and to me, this is Jazz in its purest and simplest form. Enjoy!

One of my all-time favorite Hawk cd's.......2004-11-20

I have a ton of Hawk cd's. Yet this is one that I invariably reach for time and time again. It is absolutely flawless from start to finish. There is absolutely not one wrong note on this entire session, not one thing that I would change, except perhaps, out of selfishness, to make it a bit longer. 42 minutes just does not seem long enough.

But if you know the Hawk when he's blowing ballads, you know what to expect. Although it doesn't explicitly say it, this was done for the Moodsville series. So that kind of gives you the vibe on this one. So does the title though. But then you have Tommy Flanagan on the keys, and on upright, you have Wendell Marshall who set things so right on Red Garland's session during "When There Are Grey Skies." The bottom line is that you are in for a treat from the moment you pop this baby in your cd player. Dim the lights, turn up the volume, curl up with your baby, and you know what to do. At the same time, and speaking from experience, this cd is perfect for letting you know, late at night (or early in the morning depending on how you look at things), that "fella, you ain't in things alone and many a good man has done been down exactly the same road you're traveling." It's a comforting reminder, believe me.

So this is a cd for all times, good and bad and it's a dam! beautiful one. You can't pass this one up any longer. Get it today. You'll thank yourself and then kick yourself for not getting it a long, long time ago.

YES...BEAN IS "NUMERO UNO"..........2003-11-25

I really wanted to end my reviewing here on Amazon on a good note...with one last great CD...and this one sort of dropped into my lap, after listening to the LP last night. Then here it was on CD. I love the statement below by the previous reviewer about Hawk being the greatest. I made that same statement this morning to a jazz friend and studio owner. He did not disagree, but he said to put the #1 label on any player is not fair to all the other diverse players. But I can't help it, it's just how I feel. I love Webster, and Carter, and Willie Smith, and Bird, and Trane, and Mobley, and Stan, etc. I just think the Bean is the Best. As the title infers, these are ballads and, oh, how lovely Hawk swoops through them. Again I agree with the sentiment about Coltrane's "Ballads" on 'Impulse'. Even though that is one of my favorite ballad recordings also, I go with this one first as well. This is artistry, mastery, AND ease. I think the 'ease' part is what seperates the two for me. I can't say enough about this one. The review below says it for me. Thanks.

Simple Perfection.......2002-04-26

This is the kind of album that the 'critics' always give three stars because it 'doesn't break new ground.' Granted, there is little virtuosity and no outside harmony. But sometimes it's enough to hear the Master play the melody, and protect the melody for all time. The Hawk can put more intelligence, heart, and soul in a single note than most tenors can squeeze into a whole album of cutting edge jazz. And Hawk's acid sweetness puts all of 'smooth jazz' to shame: the taste of wine compared to cool aid. Like Ben Webster, Ike Quebec, and Gene Ammons, the Hawk is one of the few great balladeers. In fact, he's the one who started it all: he invented THE TONE. A great teacher needs few words: a great musician needs few notes.

Music CD:

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

To the Death ~ M.O.P.

Songs of Praise ~ The Adicts

Have You Fed the Fish? ~ Badly Drawn Boy

Fly Brother Fly ~ Greg Bishop

Freeze Frame ~ The J. Geils Band

The Best of Parlet ~ Parlet

Laundromat ~ Nivea

How You Luv That? ~ Big Tymers

Tha Govner's Rump Shake ~ Tha Govner

Rule 3:36 ~ Ja Rule