| Coleman Hawkins | Primary Artist, Tenor Saxophone |
| Bill Doggett | Organ, Piano |
| George Barnes | Guitar |
| Billy Bauer | Guitar |
| Tommy Flanagan | Piano |
| Claude Hopkins | Piano |
| Hank Jones | Piano |
| Duke Jordan | Piano |
| Jimmy Knepper | Trombone |
| Cecil Payne | Baritone Saxophone |
| Rex Stewart | Cornet |
| Art Taylor | Drums |
| Trigger Alpert | Bass |
| Matthew Gee | Trombone |
| Tyree Glenn | Trombone |
| Sanford Gold | Piano |
| Neal Hefti | Conductor |
| Joe Wilder | Trumpet |
| Gene Ramey | Bass |
| Walter Bolden | Drums |
| Al Casmenti | Guitar |
| Jimmy Crawford | Drums |
| Benny Harris | Trumpet |
| Conrad Henry | Bass |
| Wendell Marshall | Bass |
| Matthew McGee | Trombone |
| Danny Mendelsohn | Keyboards |
| Arvell Shaw | Bass |
| Norris "Bunny" Shawker | Drums |
| Idrees Sulieman | Trumpet |
| Shadow Wilson | Drums |
| Al Casimenti | Guitar |
| George Gershwin | Composer |
| Miklós Rózsa | Composer |
| James P. Johnson | Composer |
| Joe Marsala | Composer |
| Irving Mills | Composer |
| Jimmy McHugh | Composer |
| Henry Creamer | Composer |
| Dave Grusin | Executive Producer |
| Eddie DeLange | Composer |
| Joseph Doughney | Reissue Post Production |
| Dorothy Fields | Composer |
| Milt Gabler | Producer |
| Ira Gershwin | Composer |
| Benny Harris | Composer |
| Will Hudson | Composer |
| Orrin Keepnews | Producer, Reissue Producer |
| Michael Landy | Reissue Post Production |
| Sonny Mediana | Production Director |
| Dan Morgenstern | Liner Notes |
| Mitchell Parish | Composer |
| Charlie Parker | Composer |
| Larry Rosen | Executive Producer |
| Bob Thiele | Producer |
| Rusty Young | Composer |
| Adam Zelinka | Reissue Post Production |
| Pat DiNizio | Composer |
| Carmen Lombardo | Composer |
| Coleman Hawkins Quintet | Contributor |
| Dan Serrano | Art Direction |
| George Simon | Producer |
| Jackie Salway | Graphic Design |
| Alba Acevedo | Graphic Design |
| Sunny Skylar | Composer |
| Mack David | Composer |
| Heinz Roemheld | Composer |
| Charles Newman | Composer |
| Scott Johnson | Art Direction |
Editorial Reviews
All Music Guide - Scott Yanow
Hawkins had been the dominant tenor-saxophonist from the mid-'20s up until 1940, but even though he remained a major force, his influence was waning, due to the emergence of Lester Young and then Charlie Parker. By the early '50s he only recorded on an infrequent basis. Fortunately a few years later partly due to the rise of Sonny Rollins whose original hero was Hawk, his fortunes were on the rise again. This Decca CD contains quite a variety of music. There are ten selections of melodic "mood" music from 1951-53 in which Hawkins mostly sticks to the melody an exception is an excellent version of "If I Could Be with You". Then the great tenor is heard in an occasionally ...