Coleman Hawkins, Body and Soul, Metropol 1963

Footage from Coleman Hawkins visit to Metropol jazz club in Oslo , Norway, february 1963.
Coleman Hawkins, tenor sax
Einar Iversen, piano
Ole Jacob Hansen, drums
Jarle Krogstad, bass
Thanks to NRK for making this material available!
Hawk

[@ChuckParDueMusic]

A stunning performance by the Father of the tenor saxophone.

[@zinwah]

This is a masterful performance by the great Coleman Hawkins, supported by the fine Norwegian pianist Einar Iversen.. Only a few hundred people have viewed it but it deserves to be seen by many thousands.

[@phonecorps996]

Excellent audio.

[@georgemcfetridge8310]

We're lucky to have this. Hawkins shows that players never have to leave chord changes to play fresh music- that harmonic structure isn't exhausted for improvisation. An important video.

[@sluket1513]

A legendary performance - and Norwegian Jazz History at its best!!

[@paulgibby6932]

Must have been hard to play drums behind this virtuoso performance. Got to have an internal cesium clock.

[@arniekari]

I was employed at the Metropol, Oslo in 1960 in the large kitchen on a washing-up machine and again in 1962 with my friend John McEwan who was later transferred to the sister restaurant Frascati. In total I spent several months in Oslo staying in digs in the town. To save enough money to return by boat to England in 1960, I often worked double-shift 16-hour days in the kitchen then walking back from the Metropol at Akersgaten 8 to my digs in Majorstuen though the snow at midnight only to return to work the next morning at 7:00 am. I will never forget my time at the Metropol and the kindness shown by the staff and management. Chris Dell😮

[@suzanneeberhardt3024]

Coleman is great but that pianist is terrific great pair

[@bmulato5921]

Genial !!!

[@山口大輔-r6p]

Fantastic!

[@golds04]

6000 views of- a masterpiece. 😢😢. Painful. Ty Hawk. Beautiful 🌸💯

[@philpryor7524]

A lesson, an example, study, performance, delight, all here. Hawkins had such depth, and a masterly presentation. And, that's a lovely instrument.

[@jazznutz]

What a treat!!

[@thejazztherapyjesse]

Supremely elegant, the one and only…

[@pnojazz]

Enjoy the show!

[@euclid1618]

an minde at werk

[@markschlesinger]

What were the bassman and drummer paid for? They did nothing,

[@waldolydecker8118]

they did the most important thing....they brought the chicks

[@moloch2007]

One of Sonny Rollins’ top five picks of all time from the Hawk.

[@emiliogimenezzapiola6302]

This version?
Deserves.❤