Coleman Hawkins: At Ease with Coleman Hawkins

Date:	Friday, January 29, 1960
Label/Number:	Prestige Moodsville 7
Personnel:	Coleman Hawkins (ts) Tommy Flanagan (p) Wendell Marshall (b) Osie Johnson (d)
Tracks:	Trouble Is A Man / While We’re Young / Then I’ll Be Tired Of You / Poor Butterfly / For You, For Me, For Evermore / At Dawning / I’ll Get By / Mighty Like a Rose
Location:	Englewood Cliffs
Producer:	Esmond Edwards
Liner Notes:	Ron Eyre
Research Comments:	Producer Esmond Edwards remembers how casually Hawkins approached recording sessions: “I learned early on that Bean never prepared for a session. He could know three, six months in advance, he’d come to the studio with his flight bag and a bottle of vodka in it. And his car, and his horn, and that was it. And so you’d have to go, ‘Well, what are we going to do now, Bean?’ – ‘I dunno.’ So I ended up bringing a briefcase full of lead sheets. You know, I love standards, and I’d bring him a stack of standards. And he’d look through it, run it through once or twice, and it was like he wrote the tune, you know, when he started performing.”
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Sources:	CDJ TL CRZ AJ-IJS PR1