Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (SHM-SACD single layer)

„One of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums, and one of the great albums of the 1960s,” wrote the New York Times in 1995 about this joint recording by two jazz greats. Ellington and Hawkins had the greatest respect for each other’s work and had been toying with the idea of recording an album together for many years.

It was finally realised on 18 August 1962 at Rudy van Gelder’s studio. Ellington didn’t bring his orchestra, but some of his soloists.

Duke Ellington (p), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Johnny Hodges (as), Harry Carney (bars, bcl), Lawrence Brown (tb), Ray Nance (c, v), Aaron Bell (kb), Sam Woodyard (dr)

This title is an SHM SACD. This format is the further development of the single-layer SACD and uses a particularly light-transparent plastic (Super High Material). It allows a much better readability of the pit-land structures on the surface than is possible with hybrid SACDs. Universal’s SHM SACDs are generally re-digitized to DSD from the albums’ master tapes without any changes. SHM SACDs can be played on any SACD player. Please do not use L’Art du Son or alcohol-based cleaning agents. – Please note: All titles are designed by Universal Music as limited edition collector’s items for the Japanese market.

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