4-Track 7 1/2 IPS - COLEMAN HAWKINS & HIS ORCHESTRA - Crown Reel to Reel Tape

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REELHIFICheck out ReelHifi on You tube YouTube7-1/2 IPS 4-TRACK REEL TAPE CROWN ST 120 COLEMAN HAWKINS COLEMAN HAWKINS & HIS ORCHESTRAThis is a seriously impressive tape musically, I reel-y enjoyed testing this one! Coleman Hawkins easily keeps up with the younger sideman on this session.The sound quality of this Crown tape is excellent-and-then-some! The stereo is pretty damn good too. Which is surprising as all get out considering this is a 1960 Crown Records release.Both sides of this 4-track stereo reel tape play from start to finish with absolutely no issues. The tape still looks fresh, it's flat supple and shiny. The tape is packed perfectly flat on the original reel.Please see the photos to check the condition of the box and reel.Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra is an album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins which was recorded in 1960 and released on the Crown label.All compositions by Coleman Hawkins "Bean in Orbit" -- 6:08 "After Midnight" -- 4:51 "Hassle" -- 6:41 "Moodsville" -- 6:21 "Stalking" -- 9:20Coleman Hawkins -- tenor saxophone Thad Jones -- trumpet Eddie Costa -- piano, vibraphone George Duvivier -- bass Osie Johnson -- drumsFrom an AllMusic review of the CD reissue by Scott Yanow"The music included on this CD reissue has always been a bit mysterious. Recorded sometime in 1960, it was originally released on a pair of cheap-looking LPs by the Crown label. The composers of the songs have never been listed, although it is probable that some were written by tenor-saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, pianist Eddie Costa and trumpeter Thad Jones (who probably was responsible for the bulk of the tunes). Even for the 2004 reissue, the origin of the music is not known. None of the songs would become standards and they sound moderately modern for 1960 without being more advanced than hard bop.Nat Pierce is the pianist on "Shadows" but otherwise all of the piano chores are taken by Eddie Costa, who also plays vibes on a couple numbers. Hawkins and Jones are both in excellent form, digging into the chord changes, some of which seem a little familiar although usually not based exactly on any earlier standard; an exception is "Shadows" which is very close to "Under a Blanket of Blue." The fact that Hawkins could sound so comfortable with modernists from younger generations is always impressive. Although falling slightly short of essential, this is certainly the best reissue of this obscure material."From a BlueSounds online review of the CD reissueThe abiding contemporaneousness of Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969) became in the late Fifties something of a cliché. But cliché or not, he was a 56-year-old veteran who started in jazz 40 years earlier with Mamie Smiths Jazz Hounds, and when these sessions were recorded he more than held his own with younger jazzmen like Thad Jones and Eddie Costa. Because Hawk was always ahead, harmonically. It was a thing of wonder, to be sure, to hear Hawkins blowing with those modernists in this relaxed set where none of the tempos rises above medium-up.All frameworks for blowing are in the familiar mold of theme-solos-outchorus, and the full session finds Hawk in great form, as if hes got all the time in the world to make his point with a succession of gorgeous solos, full of warmth and invention. Thad Jones, always an intelligent player, is clever and distinctive on open or muted horn, Eddie Costa brings his individuality to bear on vibes and piano, contributing unconventionally and excitingly, while Duvivier and Johnson display fine rapport with him, blending together in a swinging, effective rhythm section.Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 -- May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". Hawkins biographer John Chilton described the prevalent styles of tenor saxophone solos prior to Hawkins as "mo... read more

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