Wrapped Tight

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Field	Value
name	Wrapped Tight
type	Album
artist	Coleman Hawkins
cover	Wrapped Tight.jpg
released	1965
recorded	February 22 and March 1, 1965
studio	Van Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
genre	Jazz
length	43:08
label	Impulse!
producer	Bob Thiele
chronology	Coleman Hawkins
prev_title	Sonny Meets Hawk!
prev_year	1963
next_title	The Hawk and the Hunter
next_year	1965
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Reception

| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = | rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide | rev2Score = | rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz | rev3Score = | rev4 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | rev4Score = In his review at AllMusic, Scott Yanow gave the album 4 stars, writing, "Hawkins's last strong recording finds the veteran, 43 years after his recording debut with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, improvising creatively on a wide variety of material... [showing] that the tenor-saxophonist was still coming up with new ideas in 1965."

A reviewer for Billboard commented: "Manny Albam's arrangements guide the larger group with swinging style and grace. 'Beautiful Girl' and 'She's Fit' are particularly outstanding."

Writing for Life, Carter Harman called the album "another anthology of wonderful standards," and noted that it "proves that the tenorman, in his 40th year of fame, can still compete favorably with the younger crowd on their own terms."

A writer for Negro Digest stated that the album "drives home a lesson sorely needed in the often cultist world of jazz: that genuine artistry is a thing of its itself, transcending the superficialities of form, style and vogue."

Track listing

"Marcheta" (Victor Schertzinger) – 3:06
"Intermezzo" (Pietro Mascagni) – 3:37
"Wrapped Tight" (Manny Albam) – 3:30
"Red Roses for a Blue Lady" (Sid Tepper, Roy C. Bennett) – 2:25
"She's Fit" (Coleman Hawkins) – 2:45
"Beautiful Girl" (Micki Marlow, Irene Frank) – 4:28
"And I Still Love You" (Pauline Rivelli, Ruth Roberts, Stanley Clayton) – 3:14
"Bean's Place" (Buck Clayton, Bob Hammer) – 2:57
"Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:24
"I Won't Dance" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 3:22
"Indian Summer" (Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) – 5:03
"Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:41

Personnel

Coleman Hawkins — tenor saxophone
Bill Berry (tracks 1–3 & 7–8), Snooky Young (tracks 4–6) — trumpet
Urbie Green — trombone
Barry Harris — piano
Buddy Catlett — double bass
Eddie Locke — drums

References

[http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9000-series/#a-87 Impulse! Records discography]. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
(1999). "The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide". Random House.
(1994). "The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette". Penguin Books.
(2002). "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music". Virgin Books.
Yanow, Scott. "Coleman Hawkins - Wrapped Tight".
(December 4, 1965). "Album Reviews".
Harman, Carter. (July 22, 1966). "Forty Years of Hawk's Mighty Honk".
(March 1966). "On Record".

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