Music

The Hawk Flies High 1957

By Coleman Hawkins

  • jazz
  • 39 min
  • 6 tracks
  • Riverside

The Hawk Flies High is a 1957 album by jazz tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. Apart from Barry Galbraith and Jo Jones on guitar and drums, the line-up of his accompanying sextet had a bebop background, namely J.J. Johnson on trombone, Idrees Sulieman on trumpet, pianist Hank Jones, and Oscar Pettiford on bass.

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Grave, classical in form, spare and character-led.

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  • classical in formformally daring
  • sparerichly built
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • earnestironic

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