1. April In Paris
2. Body And Soul
3. Bugle Call Rag
4. Crazy Rhythm
5. 39-25-39
6. Indian Summer
7. Fine Dinner
8. Honeysuckle Rose
9. Hello Lola!
10. Low Flame
11. Meet Doctor Foo
12. My Melancholy Baby
13. One Hour
14. Lost In A Fog
15. Bouncing With Bean
16. Sweet Georgia Brown
17. The Darktown Strutter’s Ball
18. St Louis Shuffle
Widely regarded as the finest tenor saxophonist of any era, Coleman Hawkins is rightly named as one of the pioneers of modern jazz. It was his use of the instrument as a means of expression that created a path for countless performers since. He began his professional career in 1921 as a member of Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds and made his first significant solo recording in 1926 and over the next decade or so became established as one of the finest players in the world and a regular visitor to Europe. Coleman welcomed the explosion of bebop in the early 1940s, not least because his playing had been very much avant garde before it came into vogue. He was still playing and touring with a variety of bands, many of whom he had inspired, shortly before his death in 1969.