Bean on Savoy

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i know the Hawk returns- long oop- but what is the best way to hear his savoy output, which i believe was a few lps------

[John L]

Is there any other Bean on Savoy than "The Hawk Returns?" I haven't heard of any.

[brownie]

There was also the 'Coleman Hawkins Meets the Big Sax Section'

This was the 1979 Savoy Jazz reissue of the Savoy/World Wide original. The sax section was from the Basie band: Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Frank Foster and Charlie Fowlkes.

Can't think of any other session.

[John L]

Thanks, Brownie. That looks interesting. Is it as good as the lineup would suggest?

[brownie]

A really excellent session. One of those albums that were taken for granted when they came out because those musicians were around and producing but half a century later they're all gone - or almost - and the music lives on! Listened to it a while ago and enjoyed it tremendously!

[John L]

Thanks, Brownie! That one is going near the top of my "to buy" list.

[Chuck Nessa]

Some prime Hawk (1944) resides on a couple of Cozy Cole Savoy sessions.

[Brownian Motion]

Some prime Hawk (1944) resides on a couple of Cozy Cole Savoy sessions.

I love these sessions. They were arranged by Walter "Foots" Thomas, and feature Hawk, and Emmett Berry on trumpet. These, and several very similar sessions, also arranged by Foots, on the Joe Davis label are among the very best swing sessions, imo.

[Big Beat Steve]

Still more Hawk on Savoy is found on the Varsity Seven sessions of Dec. 14, 1939 and Jan. 14., 1940 taken over from the Varsity label and issued partly on Savoy 78s before being reissued on various Savoy LP's later on as well as on Storyville SLP 703.

Edited March 7, 2007 by Big Beat Steve

[Brownian Motion]

So you are referring to the sessions originally done for the Continental label?

No, the Joe Davis label. But you're correct that Foots also did at least one session under Cozy's name for Continental, producing four sides. These can be found on "The Continental Sessions Volume 2", and feature Coleman Hawkins. The Savoy sides were most recently reissued on Chronological Classics--Cozy Cole 1944, now oop. The Joe Davis sides, some of them featuring Hawk, some Ben Webster, are available on "Bean & Ben"

on Harlequin,

and four other titles arranged by Foots can be found here:

with Budd Johnson handling the tenor sax work.

If you're a completist, a bunch of alternative takes from some of these sessions are available on Neatwork under Hawk's and Ben's names.

The common factor in all these sessions was Foots as arranger, section saxophonist, and--rarely--soloist.

Edited March 7, 2007 by Brownian Motion

[Big Beat Steve]

Brownian Motion, I realized my error earlier so I changed my post above. I had assumed it was the Continental sessions that Savoy had reissued but these are a different story again.

I've been aware of the Joe Davis sessions for a VERY long time. Great stuff!

[medjuck]

I just picked up a cd on Savoy called "Confessin': the Astounding Coleman Hawkins". It consists of 3 cuts from

the "Big Sax Section" sessions and ten cuts from the 1954 organ quartet session.

[Big Beat Steve]

I admit I am not familiar with this particular reissue and this might very well be a good way of getting introduced to this material but it always is very annoying when you get incomplete and possibly unrelated sessions thrown together on one disc, therefore forcing you to end up with lots of duplicates if you want to explore ANY of these sessions further.

I think with today's collectors being what they are you don't even have to be a completist to dislike this sort of programming/marketing strategy.