Bean Bags

1959 studio album by Milt Jackson and Coleman Hawkins

Bean Bags

Studio album by

Milt Jackson and Coleman Hawkins

Released

1959

Recorded

September 12, 1958
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

36:08

Label

Atlantic

Producer

Nesuhi Ertegun

Milt Jackson chronology

The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2
(1958)

Bean Bags
(1959)

Things Are Getting Better
(1958)

Coleman Hawkins chronology

The Saxophone Section
(1958)

Bean Bags
(1959)

Soul
(1958)

Bean Bags is an album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson and saxophonist Coleman Hawkins featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Atlantic label.^[1]^[2]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "Many of vibraphonist Milt Jackson's Atlantic recordings are long overdue to appear on CD, and that certainly includes Bean Bags, which features a meeting with the great tenor Coleman Hawkins. Assisted by a top-notch quartet."^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Milt Jackson except as indicated

"Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 7:25
"Stuffy" (Coleman Hawkins) - 5:41
"Don't Take Your Love From Me" (Henry Nemo) - 4:49
"Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:28
"Sandra's Blues" - 6:38
"Indian Blues" - 6:07

Personnel

References

^ Milt Jackson discography. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
^ Evensmo, J. "The Tenor Sax of Coleman Hawkins Part 3: 1950 - 1959". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review. Retrieved January 17, 2012.

Milt Jackson

Studio albums

Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson (1948)
Roll 'Em Bags (1949)
Meet Milt Jackson (1949)
Wizard of the Vibes (1952)
Milt Jackson Quartet (1955)
Opus de Jazz (1956)
Ballads & Blues (1957)
The Jazz Skyline (1956)
Plenty, Plenty Soul (1957)
Bags & Flutes (1957)
Soul Brothers (1958)
Bean Bags (1959)
Bags' Opus (1959)
Bags & Trane (1960)
The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson (1960)
Soul Meeting (1961)
Vibrations (1961)
Very Tall (1961)
Statements (1961)
Bags Meets Wes! (1961)
Big Bags (1962)
Invitation (1962)
For Someone I Love (1962)
Much in Common (1964)
Jazz 'n' Samba (1964)
In a New Setting (1964)
Ray Brown / Milt Jackson (1965)
Born Free (1966)
Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet (1968)
Memphis Jackson (1969)
Reunion Blues (1971)
Sunflower (1972)
Goodbye (1973)
Olinga (1974)
The Big 3 (1975)
Quadrant (1977)
Ain't But a Few of Us Left (1981)
Two of the Few (1983)
Soul Route (1983)

Live albums

Milt Jackson Quintet Live at the Village Gate (1963)
Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art (1965)
That's the Way It Is (1969)
Just the Way It Had to Be (1969)
The Milt Jackson Big 4 (1975)

With others

Quintet/Sextet (1956)
Bags' Groove (1957)
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1959)
Bags & Trane (1961)

Modern Jazz Quartet

v t e Coleman Hawkins
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Body and Soul (1939–56)/The Hawk in Hi Fi (1956) Disorder at the Border (1952) The Hawk Talks (1952–53) The Hawk Returns (released 1954) Timeless Jazz (1954) Accent on Tenor Sax (1955) The Hawk in Paris (1956) The Gilded Hawk (1956–57) Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957) The Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Pete Brown, Jo Jones All Stars at Newport (1957) The Genius of Coleman Hawkins (1957) The Hawk Flies High (1957) Bean Bags (and Milt Jackson, 1958) Coleman Hawkins and Confrères (1958) Soul (1958) The High and Mighty Hawk (1958) The Saxophone Section (1958) Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio (1959) Hawk Eyes (1959) Coleman Hawkins All Stars (with Vic Dickenson and Joe Thomas, 1959) Very Saxy (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Buddy Tate, Arnett Cobb, 1959) At Ease with Coleman Hawkins (1960) Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra (1960) Night Hawk (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1960) The Hawk Swings (1960) Jazz Reunion (and Pee Wee Russell, 1961) The Hawk Relaxes (1961) Back in Bean's Bag (and Clark Terry, 1962) Bluesy Burrell (with Kenny Burrell, 1962) Coleman Hawkins Plays Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (1962) Desafinado (1962) Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962) Good Old Broadway (1962) Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate (1962) Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (1962) The Jazz Version of No Strings (1962) Today and Now (1962) Sonny Meets Hawk! (and Sonny Rollins, 1963) Wrapped Tight (1965) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967)
With others	Further Definitions (Benny Carter, 1951) All the Cats Join In (Buck Clayton, 1953–56) Jumpin' at the Woodside (Buck Clayton, 1954–55) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Dizzy Gillespie, 1939) Blues Groove (Tiny Grimes, 1958) At Newport '63 (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, 1963) Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961) 2-3-4 (Shelly Manne, 1962) Monk's Music (Thelonious Monk, 1957) Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (also Hawkins, 1957) We Insist! (Max Roach, 1960) Ben Webster and Associates (1959) Live at the Five Spot (Randy Weston, 1959) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams, 1963)