Sonny Meets Hawk! Explained

Sonny Meets Hawk!
Type:	Album
Artist:	Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins
Cover:	Sonny Meets Hawk!.jpg
Released:	October 1963^[1]
Recorded:	July 15 (#1–2, 5) and 18 (#3–4, 6), 1963
Studio:	RCA Victor, New York City
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	41:21
Label:	RCA Victor LPM-2712
Producer:	George Avakian
Chronology:	Sonny Rollins
Prev Title:	Our Man in Jazz
Prev Year:	1962
Next Title:	Now's the Time
Next Year:	1964

Sonny Meets Hawk! is a 1963 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, with Coleman Hawkins appearing as guest artist.^[2] It was recorded at RCA Victor Studio B in New York City on July 15 and 18, 1963. The album features some of Rollins's most avant-garde playing.^[3]

The album marks the first time the two saxophonists had entered a recording studio together, although they had appeared on stage together briefly that same year at the Newport Jazz Festival.^[4]

Track listing

1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 5:13
2. "All the Things You Are" (Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 9:33
3. "Summertime" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:58
4. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 4:40
5. "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" – (Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, James Sherman) – 8:54
6. "At McKies'" (Rollins) – 7:03

Personnel

• Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
• Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
• Paul Bley – piano
• Roy McCurdy – drums
• Bob Cranshaw – bass (tracks 1, 2, and 5) – recorded July 15
• Henry Grimes – bass (tracks 3, 4, and 6) – recorded July 18

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=UQsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Sonny+Meets+2712&pg=PA43 Billboard Oct 26, 1963
2. arwulf arwulf at allmusic
3. Web site: On Intergenerational Jazz Performance. 2 July 2018.
4. Original liner notes by producer George Avakian