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Night Hawk (album)

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Night Hawk
Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedDecember 30, 1960
StudioVan Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length40:40
LabelSwingville
SVLP 2016
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Coleman Hawkins chronology
The Hawk Swings
(1960)
Night Hawk
(1961)
Jazz Reunion
(1961)
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis chronology
Griff & Lock
(1960)
Night Hawk
(1960)
The First Set
(1961)

Night Hawk is an album by saxophonists Coleman Hawkins with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, recorded at the end of 1960 and released on the Swingville label.[1][2]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
DownBeat[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]

The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer picked Hawkins' performance on "There Is No Greater Love" as the highlight, stating: "his fine sense of form and rhythmic construction [...] are exceptional, even for him".[4] The AllMusic site awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "Hawkins was one of the main inspirations of his fellow tenor Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, so it was logical that they would one day meet up in the recording studio. This CD has many fine moments from these two highly competitive jazzmen".[3]

Track listing

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  1. "Night Hawk" (Coleman Hawkins) – 10:30
  2. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) – 8:15
  3. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 6:45
  4. "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) – 8:35
  5. "Pedalin'" (Ken McIntyre) – 6:35

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Prestige Records discography accessed March 15, 2013
  2. ^ Coleman Hawkins Discography accessed May 9, 2019
  3. ^ a b Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed March 15, 2013
  4. ^ a b DeMichael, Don (August 17, 1961). "Coleman Hawkins: Night Hawk". DownBeat. Vol. 28, no. 17. p. 32.
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 98. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 669. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.