Coleman Hawkins with Horace Silver - Complete Birdland Broadcasts

"Coleman Hawkins and Horace Silver were only recorded together during the two Birdland broadcasts presented here, which had never previously appeared on CD. As a bonus, we have added Hawkins' complete quartet set at the First Playboy Jazz Festival in 1959 and a seven-minute Hawkins interview, which also appear here for the first time ever on CD."

How great is it that this kind of stuff continues to show up? These are certainly not the greatest recordings ever or anything like that, but given the level of the participants, how can you possibly resist?  These tracks are from the golden age of radio when live dates with the giants of jazz were a regular weekly event. Jump into the 'Wayback Machine' and spend an hour or so transported back to a time when jazz was still popular music in the spotlight.