Hawkins, Erskine - The Hawk Blows At Midnight

RARE/2HAND VINYL LP ON DECCA 1960.

DECCA DL 74081 made in USA with original inner sleeve. Vinyl NM. Cover EX.

Jazz trumpeter, Erskine Hawkins, was born in Birmingham, Alabama July 26, 1914. A talented high-note trumpeter and a popular bandleader, Erskine Hawkins was nicknamed “The 20th Century Gabriel.” He learned drums and trombone before switching to trumpet when he was 13, and was one of five inaugural inductees into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1978. He also became on of the principal influences on a young rhythm and blues piano player named Ray Charles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Hawkins

Tracklist.

1. Tuxedo Junction
2. Love Is Here To Stay
3. Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
4. Midnight Stroll
5. Blue Embers
6. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
7. Cherry
8. The Birth Of The Blues
9. Tippin' In
10. If I Could Be With You
11. Deep Purple
12. Hawkin' Around