This wonderful release presents an impressive concert by a true All Star combo. Recorded in London in 1964, the event brings together a group of veteran musicians with distinguished careers behind them. The most renowned of these great performers is, of course, Coleman Hawkins, who developed the tenor saxophone into an instrument for jazz improvisation. As a bonus to this amazing performance, we present a complete short film made in Brussels by Coleman Hawkins. backed by Jimmy Woode on bass and presenting the splendid French pianist George Arvanitas, as well as the American drummer Kansas Fields, who was living in Europe by the time this movie was made. Although the whole set is certainly interesting, the most unusual tune is Hawkins unaccompanied opening improvisation. Hawk was the very first musician to commercially record an unaccompanied tenor saxophone solo, when he waxed his Dali in 1948.
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