Review

The Hawk gets jaunty in Europe, 1960.
This album lays down two European concerts from 1960 led by Coleman Hawkins, who, three decades earlier, pretty much made the tenor sax a commanding instrument of jazz, devised the fluent style of harmonic improvisation that anticipated bebop, and then emerged, in the '50s, as one of the few swing musicians who made the leap to modernism — and enthusiastically so. These are jaunty sessions, some joined by Roy Eldridge on trumpet and Benny Carter on alto. Nobody coasts for a second.