Today and Now
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{{Infobox album
| name = Today and Now
| type = Album
| artist = Coleman Hawkins
| cover = Today and Now.jpg
| alt =
| released = July/August 1963[https://books.google.com/books?id=WAsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Today+Now+impulse+1963&pg=PA14 Billboard Aug 10, 1963]
| recorded = September 9 & 11, 1962
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
| genre = Jazz
| length = 40:01
| label = Impulse!
A-34
| producer = Bob Thiele
| chronology = Coleman Hawkins
| prev_title = Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
| prev_year = 1962
| next_title = Bluesy Burrell
| next_year = 1962
}}
Today and Now is an album by American jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins featuring performances recorded in 1962 for the Impulse! label.[https://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9000-series/#a-34 Impulse! Records discography] accessed March 18, 2011
Reception
The Allmusic review by Steven McDonald awarded the album 4 stars stating "Not always the most compelling title from the Hawkins catalog, the record at least has the virtue of both being listenable and worthy of somewhat deeper inspection".McDonald, S. [https://www.allmusic.com/album/today-and-now-r140443 Allmusic Review] accessed March 18, 2011
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev2 = Down Beat
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}Down Beat:September 12, 1963 Vol. 30, No.25
|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev3score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=670}}
}}
Track listing
- "Go Li'l Liza" (Traditional) – 6:25
- "Quintessence" (Quincy Jones) – 4:46
- "Don't Love Me" (Bill Katz, Pauline Rivelli, Ruth Roberts) – 4:40
- "Love Song from "Apache"" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) – 4:14
- "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnett" (Stanley Murphy, Percy Wenrich) – 9:51
- "Swingin' Scotch" (Coleman Hawkins) – 5:32
- "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)" (Sam H. Stept, Lew Brown, Charles Tobias) – 4:33
Recorded on September 9, 1962 (1-4) and 11, 1962 (5-7).
Personnel
- Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
- Tommy Flanagan – piano
- Major Holley – bass
- Eddie Locke – drums
References
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Category:Impulse! Records albums
Category:Coleman Hawkins albums