Cozy Cole´s Big Seven, mid-50s session

[EKE BBB]

Been listening to a 50´s Coleman Hawkins CD compilation on GRP: "Coleman Hawkins in the 50s - Body and Soul revisited" [GRP 16272]

It includes diverse material, from very commercial sides to some boppish stuff.

But for me the jewel of the crown is an almost forgotten mid-50s (exact recording date unknown) session of Cozy Cole´s Big Seven: Rex Stewart on cornet, Hawk, Tyree Glenn on trombone, Billy Bauer on guitar, Arvell Shaw on bass, Claude Hopkins on piano and Cozy Cole.

My GRP CD includes 5 of the 6 tunes from that session:

-My blue heaven

-Honeysuckle Rose

-Organ Grinder´s swing

-Perdido

-Sweetheart´s on parade

Another track was recorded: "Caravan", a drum feature for Cozy Cole that does not include Hawkins.

According to liner notes, this session was orginally released on LP as Grand Award 1023.

According to Lord it was Grand Award LP 33-334 (???) and it was recorded on February, 1956.

Has this session ever made it on CD in a complete version?

[mmilovan]

Knowing (both of usa, as well as other members also) how Cosy Cole sounded behind Hawk in that 1944 "Stompin' At The Savoy" session (he was r'nr' rhythm machine) - this session can be wall destructor.

[mikeweil]

Bruyninckx gives February 1956 as recording date, but hasn't any more issues than the two mentioned.