Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate

1963 live album by Coleman Hawkins

Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate

Live album by

Coleman Hawkins

Released| 1963
Recorded| August 13 and 15, 1962
Venue| Village Gate, NYC
Genre| Jazz
Length| 52:54
Label| Verve
V/V6 8509
Producer| Creed Taylor
Coleman Hawkins chronology
| Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate!
(1962)  | Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate
(1963)  | Coleman Hawkins Plays Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi
(1962)

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Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate is a live album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins which was recorded at the Village Gate in 1962 and released on the Verve label.[1][2]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [3]

AllMusic stated "The great Hawkins (who debuted on records 40 years earlier) gets to stretch out on this live outing by his 1962 quartet ... Coleman Hawkins in his late 50s was still a powerful force.[3]

## Track listing

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1. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 8:16
2. "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" (Traditional) – 10:43
3. "Mack the Knife" (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht) – 8:50
4. "It's the Talk of the Town" (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 9:28
5. "Bean and the Boys" (Coleman Hawkins) – 7:02 Additional track on CD release
6. "If I Had You" (Ted Shapiro, Irving King) – 8:35 Additional track on CD release

## Personnel

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* Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
* Tommy Flanagan – piano
* Major Holley – bass
* Eddie Locke – drums

## References

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1. ^ Verve Records Catalog: 8500 series. Retrieved July 7, 2017
2. ^ Coleman Hawkins Discography. Retrieved July 7, 2017
3. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Hawkins! Alive! at the Village Gate – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

* v
* t
* e

Coleman Hawkins

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
unless stated otherwise.

Albums
as leader
or co-leader|

* Body and Soul (1939–56)/The Hawk in Hi Fi (1956)
* Disorder at the Border (1952)
* The Hawk Talks (1952–53)
* The Hawk Returns (released 1954)
* Timeless Jazz (1954)
* Accent on Tenor Sax (1955)
* The Hawk in Paris (1956)
* The Gilded Hawk (1956–57)
* Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
* The Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Pete Brown, Jo Jones All Stars at Newport (1957)
* The Genius of Coleman Hawkins (1957)
* The Hawk Flies High (1957)
* Bean Bags (and Milt Jackson, 1958)
* Coleman Hawkins and Confrères (1958)
* Soul (1958)
* The High and Mighty Hawk (1958)
* The Saxophone Section (1958)
* Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio (1959)
* Hawk Eyes (1959)
* Coleman Hawkins All Stars (with Vic Dickenson and Joe Thomas, 1959)
* Very Saxy (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Buddy Tate, Arnett Cobb, 1959)
* At Ease with Coleman Hawkins (1960)
* Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra (1960)
* Night Hawk (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1960)
* The Hawk Swings (1960)
* Jazz Reunion (and Pee Wee Russell, 1961)
* The Hawk Relaxes (1961)
* Back in Bean's Bag (and Clark Terry, 1962)
* Bluesy Burrell (with Kenny Burrell, 1962)
* Coleman Hawkins Plays Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (1962)
* Desafinado (1962)
* Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962)
* Good Old Broadway (1962)
* Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate (1962)
* Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (1962)
* The Jazz Version of No Strings (1962)
* Today and Now (1962)
* Sonny Meets Hawk! (and Sonny Rollins, 1963)
* Wrapped Tight (1965)
* The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)

With others|

* Further Definitions (Benny Carter, 1951)
* All the Cats Join In (Buck Clayton, 1953–56)
* Jumpin' at the Woodside (Buck Clayton, 1954–55)
* The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Dizzy Gillespie, 1939)
* Blues Groove (Tiny Grimes, 1958)
* At Newport '63 (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, 1963)
* Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961)
* 2-3-4 (Shelly Manne, 1962)
* Monk's Music (Thelonious Monk, 1957)
* Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (also Hawkins, 1957)
* We Insist! (Max Roach, 1960)
* Ben Webster and Associates (1959)
* Live at the Five Spot (Randy Weston, 1959)
* At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)

* v
* t
* e

Tommy Flanagan

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.

Albums
as leader
or co-leader|

* Overseas (1957)
* Lonely Town (1959)
* The Tommy Flanagan Trio (1960)
* Solo Piano (1974)
* The Tommy Flanagan Tokyo Recital (1975)
* Trinity (1976)
* Alone Too Long (1977)
* Confirmation (1977–78)
* Eclypso (1977)
* Montreux '77 (1977)
* Ballads & Blues (1978)
* More Delights (1978)
* Our Delights (1978)
* Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1978)
* The Super Jazz Trio (1978)
* Together (and Kenny Barron, 1978)
* Tommy Flanagan Plays the Music of Harold Arlen (1978)
* Something Tasty (1979)
* Super-Session (1980)
* The Standard (1980)
* You're Me (1980)
* ...And a Little Pleasure (1981)
* The Magnificent Tommy Flanagan (1981)
* Giant Steps (1982)
* Thelonica (1982)
* The Magic of 2 (and Jaki Byard, 1982)
* Blues in the Closet (1983)
* I'm All Smiles (and Hank Jones, 1983)
* The Master Trio (and Ron Carter, Tony Williams, 1983)
* Nights at the Vanguard (1986)
* Jazz Poet (1989)
* Beyond the Blue Bird (1990)
* Flanagan's Shenanigans (1993)
* Lady Be Good ... For Ella (1993)
* Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones (1993)
* Sea Changes (1996)
* Sunset and the Mockingbird (1997)

With
Pepper
Adams|

* Motor City Scene (1960)
* Encounter! (1968)
* The Master (1980)
* The Adams Effect (1985)

With
Kenny
Burrell|

* Introducing Kenny Burrell (1956)
* Swingin' (1956)
* Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1956)
* All Day Long (1957)
* Kenny Burrell (Prestige, 1957)
* Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (1958)
* Weaver of Dreams (1960–61)
* Bluesy Burrell (and Coleman Hawkins, 1962)

With
John
Coltrane|

* The Cats (no leader,1957)
* Jazz Way Out (Wilbur Harden, 1958)
* Mainstream 1958 (Wilbur Harden, 1958)
* Tanganyika Strut (Wilbur Harden, 1958)
* Giant Steps (Coltrane, 1959)

With
Art
Farmer|

* Art (1960)
* Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (1962)
* The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964)
* Group Therapy (New York Jazz Sextet, 1965–66)

With
Ella
Fitzgerald|

* Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964)
* Ella in Hamburg (1965)
* Sunshine of Your Love (1968)
* Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (1969)
* Ella in Budapest (1970)
* Ella à Nice (1971)
* Ella Loves Cole (1972)
* Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972)
* Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall (1973)
* Ella in London (1974)
* Fine and Mellow (1974)
* Montreux '75 (1975)
* Montreux '77 (1977)

With
Curtis
Fuller|

* Jazz ...It's Magic! (1957)
* Blues-ette (1959)
* Sliding Easy (1959)
* South American Cookin' (1961)

With
Coleman
Hawkins|

* At Ease with Coleman Hawkins (1960)
* Coleman Hawkins All Stars (1960)
* Night Hawk (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1960)
* Back in Bean's Bag (1962)
* Desafinado (1962)
* Good Old Broadway (1962)
* Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate (1962)
* Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (1962)
* Plays Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (1962)
* The Jazz Version of No Strings (1962)
* Today and Now (1962)

With
Milt
Jackson|

* Bags & Flutes (1957)
* Bags' Opus (1958)
* Bean Bags (1958)
* Vibrations (1960–61)
* Invitation (1962)
* Statements (1961)
* Jazz 'n' Samba (1964)

With
J.J.
Johnson|

* J Is for Jazz (1956)
* Blue Trombone (1957)
* Dial J. J. 5 (1957)
* First Place (1957)
* J. J. in Person! (1958)
* Pinnacles (1979)

With
Sonny
Rollins|

* Saxophone Colossus (1956)
* There Will Never Be Another You (1965)
* Falling in Love with Jazz (1989)
* Old Flames (1993)
* Sonny Rollins + 3 (1995)

With
others|

* Tentets (Franco Ambrosetti, 1985)
* Boss Tenor (Gene Ammons, 1960)
* Big Brass (Benny Bailey, 1960)
* Bash! (Dave Bailey, 1961)
* Who Is Gary Burton? (Gary Burton, 1962)
* Jazz Lab (Donald Byrd, 1957)
* Carter, Gillespie Inc. (Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie, 1976)
* Paul Chambers Quintet (1957)
* More Party Time (Arnett Cobb, 1960)
* Movin' Right Along (Arnett Cobb, 1960)
* Rhythm in Mind (Steve Coleman, 1991)
* Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (Sonny Criss, 1968)
* Straight Ahead (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1976)
* Collectors' Items (Miles Davis, 1956)
* Quiet Kenny (Kenny Dorham, 1959)
* The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album (1960 [1976])
* Opening Remarks (Ted Dunbar, 1978)
* Patented by Edison (Harry "Sweets" Edison, 1960)
* The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin, 1960)
* The Song Book (Booker Ervin, 1964)
* Chromatic Palette (Tal Farlow, 1981)
* The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975)
* Gettin' with It (Benny Golson, 1959)
* Free (Benny Golson, 1962)
* The Panther! (Dexter Gordon, 1970)
* The Swingin'est (Bennie Green and Gene Ammons, 1958)
* Grey's Mood (Al Grey, 1973–75)
* It's About Time (Jimmy Hamilton, 1961)
* Can't Help Swinging (Jimmy Hamilton, 1961)
* Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
* Out of the Afternoon (Roy Haynes and Roland Kirk, 1962)
* Really Big! (Jimmy Heath, 1960)
* New Picture (Jimmy Heath, 1985)
* Porgy & Bess (Joe Henderson, released 1997)
* The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962)
* Mirage (Bobby Hutcherson, 1991)
* Bossa Nova Plus (Willis Jackson, 1962)
* Desert Winds (Illinois Jacquet, 1962)
* Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants (1960)
* Let's Swing! (Budd Johnson, 1960)
* Heart to Heart (Elvin Jones, 1980)
* Blues for Dracula (Philly Joe Jones, 1958)
* Detroit – New York Junction (Thad Jones, 1956)
* Mad Thad (Thad Jones, 1956–57)
* A Story Tale (Clifford Jordan and Sonny Red, 1961)
* The Adventurer (Clifford Jordan, 1978)
* Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958)
* Booker Little (1960)
* Vocalese (The Manhattan Transfer, 1985)
* Flute Flight (Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, 1957)
* Flute Soufflé (Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, 1957)
* Dusty Blue (Howard McGhee, 1960)
* Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Charles Mingus, 1960)
* De Lawd's Blues (Billy Mitchell, 1980)
* Smooth as the Wind (Blue Mitchell, 1960–61)
* The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960)
* Jeru (Gerry Mulligan, 1962)
* Jive at Five (Joe Newman, 1960)
* Good 'n' Groovy (Joe Newman with Frank Foster, 1960)
* Joe's Hap'nin's (Joe Newman, 1961)
* Straight Life (Art Pepper, 1979)
* The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi (1956)
* Limbo Carnival (Dave Pike, 1962)
* Dave Pike Plays the Jazz Version of Oliver! (Dave Pike, 1962)
* Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962)
* Keep Swingin' (Julian Priester, 1960)
* Wisteria (Jimmy Raney, 1985)
* Swingin' with Pee Wee (Pee Wee Russell, 1960)
* Stable Mates (A. K. Salim, 1957)
* Here Comes Louis Smith (Louis Smith, 1958)
* Roots (Idrees Sulieman, 1957)
* Tate-a-Tate (Buddy Tate, 1960)
* Color Changes (Clark Terry, 1960)
* Lucky Thompson Plays Happy Days Are Here Again (1965)
* Stan "The Man" Turrentine (1960)
* ZT's Blues (Stanley Turrentine, 1961)
* The Frank Wess Quartet (1960)
* Southern Comfort (Frank Wess, 1962)
* California Soul (Gerald Wilson, 1968)
* Pairing Off (Phil Woods, 1956)
* Rights of Swing (Phil Woods, 1961)

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