The Ultimate Jazz Archive Vol.143 - Erskine Hawkins [1940-1945] [2005]

01.Soft Winds
02.Nona
03.Riff Time
04.No Use Squawkin’
05.Uncle Bud
06.Blackout
07.Blue Sea
08.Shipyard Ramble
09.Hey Doc!
10.Bicycle Bounce
11.Lucky Seven (Bill’s Tune)
12.Country Boy
13.Bear Mash Blues
14.Tippin’ In
15.Caldonia
16.Drifting Along
17.Good Dip
18.Holiday For Swing

A talented high-note trumpeter and a popular bandleader, Erskine Hawkins was nicknamed "the 20th Century Gabriel." He learned drums and trombone before switching to trumpet when he was 13. While attending the Alabama State Teachers College, he became the leader of the college band, the 'Bama State Collegians. They went to New York in 1934, became the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, started making records in 1936, and by 1938 were quite successful. With Hawkins and Dud Bascomb sharing the trumpet solos, Paul Bascomb or Julian Dash heard on tenors, Haywood Henry on baritone, and pianist Avery Parrish, this was a solidly swinging band that delighted dancers and jazz fans alike. Hawkins had three major hits ("Tuxedo Junction," "After Hours," and "Tippin' In") and was able to keep the big band together all the way until 1953; some of their later sessions were more R&B-oriented yet never without jazz interest. Hawkins led a smaller unit during his last few decades (the survivors of the big band had a recorded reunion in 1971) and the trumpeter kept on working into the 1980s. --- Scott Yanow, Rovi

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