Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
Studio album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins
Released	January 1963 (1963-01)
Recorded	August 18, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:05
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
Midnight in Paris (1962) Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1963) Studio Sessions, New York 1962 (1962)
Coleman Hawkins chronology
Coleman Hawkins Plays Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (1962) Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1963) Today and Now (1963)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Down Beat	[2]
New Record Mirror	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins that was recorded on August 18, 1962, and released in February 1963 by Impulse! Records. ^[6]

In 1995, The New York Times called it "one of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s." ^[7]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Duke Ellington, except where noted.

1. "Limbo Jazz" – 5:14
2. "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard) – 5:56
3. "Ray Charles' Place" – 4:04
4. "Wanderlust" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 5:00
5. "You Dirty Dog" – 4:19
6. "Self-Portrait (of the Bean)" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:52
7. "The Jeep Is Jumpin'" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 4:49
8. "The Ricitic" – 5:51
9. "Solitude" (Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange) (1995 CD bonus track) ^[8] – 5:51

Personnel

• Duke Ellington – piano
• Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
• Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
• Harry Carney – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
• Lawrence Brown – trombone
• Ray Nance – cornet, violin
• Aaron Bell – double bass
• Sam Woodyard – drums

Production

• Bob Thiele – producer
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
• Joe Alper – photography
• Jason Claiborne – graphic design
• Stanley Dance – liner notes
• Hollis King – art direction

Reissue

• Michael Cuscuna – liner notes, reissue producer
• Erick Labson – digital remastering

Charts

Chart performance for Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Chart (2022)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [9]	67

Notes

1. AllMusic review
2. Milkowski, Bill (June 2013). "Money Jungle: 50 Years After the Summit" (PDF). Down Beat. p. 34. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
3. Griffiths, David (13 July 1963). "Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 122. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 436. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
6. Billboard, February 9, 1963.
7. Watrous, Peter (December 17, 1995). "Pop Briefs". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
8. CD reissue only. "Solitude" was until the 1995 CD reissue never part of the album. Originally issued on the compilation album The Definitive Jazz Scene-Volume 1 (Impulse! A-99) in the 1960s.
9. "Offiziellecharts.de – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins – Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 20, 2022.