SONNY ROLLINS/COLEMAN HAWKINS Sonny Meets Hawk 1963 UK RCA 1st *MONO* PRESS
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28
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37
£ 28
Sold For
Jan 23, 2015
Sold Date
Jan 13, 2015
Start Date
£ 20
Start price
4
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Great Britain
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SONNY ROLLINS/COLEMAN HAWKINS Sonny Meets Hawk! 1963 UK RCA 1st *MONO* PRESS
SONNY ROLLINS and COLEMAN HAWKINSSonny Meets Hawk!
1963 UK RCA (RD-7593) FIRST *MONO* PRESSING
ONCE/TWICE PLAYED AND DELIVERING SURPEB SOUND
Throughout a career that spanned more than 40 years, Coleman Hawkins consistently maintained a progressive attitude, operating at or near the cutting edge of developments in jazz.
If Hawk's versatility came in handy when he backed Abbey Lincoln during Max Roach's 1960 We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, he took on an assignment of challenging dimensions when in 1963 he cut an entire album with Sonny Rollins in the company of pianist Paul Bley, bassists Bob Cranshaw and Henry Grimes, and drummer Roy McCurdy.
Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins each virtually defined the tenor saxophone for his respective generation.
To hear the two of them interacting freely is a deliciously exciting experience.
Hawkins is able to cut loose like never before. Sometimes the two collide, locking horns and wrestling happily without holding back. For this reason one might detect just a whiff of Albert Ayler's good-natured punchiness, particularly in the basement of both horns; such energies were very much in the air during the first half of the 1960s. Rather than comparing this date with the albums Hawkins shared with Ben Webster (1957), Henry "Red" Allen (1957), Pee Wee Russell (1961), or Duke Ellington (1962), one might refer instead to Hawk's wild adventures in Brussels during 1962 (see Stash 538, Dali) or Rollins' recordings from around this time period, particularly his Impulse! East Broadway Run Down album of 1965.
Check out how the Hawk interacts with Rollins' drawn-out high-pitched squeaking during the last minute of "Lover Man." On Sonny Meets Hawk!, possibly more than at any other point in his long professional evolution, Hawkins was able to attain heights of unfettered creativity that must have felt bracing, even exhilarating. He obviously relished the opportunity to improvise intuitively in the company of a tenor saxophonist every bit as accomplished, resourceful, and inventive as he was
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE GROOVED "DYNAGROOVE" RED SPOT RCA LABELS WITH "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1963" STATEMENT
MATRICES: PPRM-5453-105 / PPRM-5454-105
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED DUO FLIPBACK SLEEVE "Printed in England by James Upton Ltd. Birmingham & London"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE WITH BRITISH PATENT NUMBER, "MADE IN ENGLAND" AND "FOREIGN PATENTS PENDING" PRINTED IN PURPLE
Side 1:
Yesterdays (5:12)
All The Things You Are (9:34)
Summertime (5:56)
Side 2:
Just Friends (4:37)
Lover Man (8:52)
At McKie's (7:01)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, bright, fresh and unmarked labels - just one or two spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like-new - one light harmless hairline
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
My play-check at volume found nothing to fault bar a little low-level surface between tracks, but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so this will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins - lovely copy, barely played and sounding fantastic
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Again, beautiful condition - crisp, clean and fresh - no wear to speak of
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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