Recorded in a single day session, "The High and Mighty Hawk" captures Coleman Hawkins in a late-career quartet setting, offering a more intimate and less arranged performance than some of his earlier work. The album showcases his enduring melodicism and improvisational fluency.
- The album was recorded on April 2, 1958, at Grand Avenue Studios.
- The album was released on the Grand Avenue label in 1958.
- The genre is listed as jazz, specifically cool jazz.
Coleman Hawkins was a pioneering American jazz saxophonist from Chicago, Illinois, widely considered one of the architects of the tenor saxophone as a lead jazz instrument. In 1958, he was a seasoned giant of jazz, having already shaped the instrument's sound for decades and continuing to record prolifically.
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