Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra - Coral 60313 (1950)

After many years with RCA, Hawkins' contract was not renewed in mid 1950 and he quickly signed with Decca subsidiary Coral Records.

Here is half of his output from his first recording session with the relatively new label.

Erskine Hawkins, Idrees Sulieman, Bobby Johnson, Sam Lowe t / Bob Range, Matthew Gee, Andy Penn tb / Bobby Smith, Jimmy Mitchell as / Julian Dash, Robert green ts / Haywood Henry bar / Ace Harris p, v / Leroy Kirkland g / Lee Stanfield b / Sonny Payne d.

Recorded in New York on September 11, 1950.