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Title: Relaxed but hardly perched.
Review: The review by Mr. Dawson gets it right--Hawk is his "old self" on this early sixties recording. His tone isn't simply "pretty." Nor is it burdened by heaviness and grease, breathiness and spit, or exaggerated vibratos or swing era devices. Even when performing ballads, the Hawk talks, punctuating the poetry with those unmistakable, near-vocal articulations.The program is delightful, and those who fear that every Hawkins' solo will be another harmonic clinic based on arpeggios need have no such misgivings: he's economical yet generous and poetic in sound and phrasing. This one helps erase the memory of the unfair, or less than thoughtful (in my opinion), musical meeting that Sonny Rollins hosted for the pair on a slightly later RCA recording. It also exposes the mindless rating system employed by All Music Guide, which should not attempt to attach a quantitative assessment to music about which its reviewer is obviously clueless.
