The Middle Years: Essential Cuts 1939-1949

Na een verblijf van vijf jaar in Europa keerde the Hawk terug naar de VS als een regerend vorst. Hij begon namelijk aan een uitzonderlijk creatieve en succesvolle carriÞre, zowel onder zijn eigen naam als met andere bandleiders. Met name Body & Soul is een gouden klassieker die natuurlijk ook op deze collectie staat. Deze 4-cd-box is volledig gewijd aan de jaren40, toen Hawkins op zijn hoogtepunt was, de standaard waaraan alle andere muzikanten afgemeten werden.

Disc 1
1: When Lights Are Low
2: One Sweet Letter from You
3: Hot Mallets
4: Early Session Hop
5: Meet Doctor Foo
6: Fine Dinner
7: She's Funny That Way
8: Body and Soul
9: It's Tight Like That
10: Easy Rider
11: Scratch My Back
12: Save It Pretty Mama
13: Dinah
14: Singin' the Blues
15: When Day Is Done
16: The Sheik of Araby
17: My Blue Heaven
18: Bouncing With Bean
19: How Long, How Long
20: Shake It and Break It
21: A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
22: Pom Pom
23: Smack
24: I Surrender Dear

Disc 2
1: Passin' It Around
2: Serenade to a Sleeping Beauty
3: Rocky Comfort
4: Forgive a Fool
5: Bugle Call Rag
6: One O'clock Jump
7: 9-20 Special
8: Feedin' the Bean
9: Esquire Bounce
10: My Ideal
11: Vootde
12: How Deep Is the Ocean
13: Hawkin's Barrel House
14: Stumpy
15: Lover Come Back to Me
16: Blues Changes
17: Crazy Rhythm
18: Get Happy
19: The Man I Love
20: My Ideal
21: I Only Have Eyes for You
22: S'wonderful
23: I'm in the Mood for Love

Disc 3
1: Woody'n You
2: Buh-de-dabt
3: Yesterdays
4: Flame Thrower
5: Imagination
6: Night and Day
7: Cattin' at Keynote
8: Rainbow Mist
9: Blue Moon
10: Father Cooperates
11: Just One More Chance
12: Thru for the Night
13: Pick Up Boys
14: Porgy
15: Uptown Lullaby
16: Salt Peanuts
17: On the Sunny Side of the Street
18: Three Little Words
19: Battle of the Sexes
20: Louise

Disc 4
1: Make Believe
2: Just One of Those Things
3: On the Sunny Side of the Street
4: All the Things You Are
5: Under a Blanket of Blue
6: Undecided
7: Recollection
8: Drifting On a Reed
9: Flying Hawk
10: On the Bean
11: Bean Stalking
12: Leave My Heart Alone
13: The Night Ramble
14: Ladies Lullaby
15: Sportsman's Hop
16: Ready for Love
17: April in Paris
18: Rifftide
19: What Is There to Say
20: Wrap Up Your Troubles in Dreams
21: Cocktails for Two
22: Bean-a-bebop
23: Phantomesque
24: Picasso
25: It's Only a Paper Moon

Number of Discs: 4

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