Tenorist Coleman Hawkins was an interesting and unique figure in jazz. He was among a whole generation of Swing Era stars stylistically stranded by the advent of bebop, which revolutionised not only harmony, but time-feel, and continued to work because younger players and producers respected the timeless musicianship that produced his solo masterpiece, Body and Soul. Of these two sessions, though recorded in the same year, the second is much the more rewarding. The first, Desfinado, clearly attempts to follow the Stan Getz path and cash in on the bossa nova ballad craze. Hawkins' tone sounds broader and huskier than Getz ever did, of course, but the arrangements, with guitarists Barry Galbraith and Howard Collins sharing samba-beat duties, are very commercial. The star rating is all for the second album, Bluesy Burrell, an excellent feature for a guitarist whose early quartet recordings are among his very best. Hawkins' solos here and there, as on the excellent ‘Montuno Blues’, a line that presages the soulful album to follow. And Hawk's solo intro to ‘I Though About You’ is another gem, but Burrell is on top form throughout. ‘Out of this World’, to quote one of his best tracks.