Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins LP fg_Catalog Number_WHOBOX009 Better Oblivion Community Center features

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Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins LP fg_Catalog Number_WHOBOX009 Better Oblivion Community Center featuresEven though Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins had both been well known jazzmen since the early 1920s and continued to be successful until their deaths, their only recorded encounter was the LP Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse AS 26), taped in 1962 and presented here in its entirety. Hawkins had been an admirer of Duke Ellington's music for at least 35 years at this point and Ellington had suggested they record together at least 20 years