The Hawk Flies High
by Coleman Hawkins

The Hawk Flies High by Coleman Hawkins
Year: 1957
Overall rank: 18,808th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 30 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1957 (87th)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (553rd)
Award Best albums of all time (18,808th)

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Coleman Hawkins bestography

The Hawk Flies High is ranked 3rd best out of 25 albums by Coleman Hawkins on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Coleman Hawkins is Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster which is ranked number 6855 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 187.

Coleman Hawkins album bestography « Higher ranked (14,186th)
On Asch Records
This album (18,808th)
The Hawk Flies High
Lower ranked (21,160th) »
The High And Mighty Hawk

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Overall rank: 18,808th | 1950s rank: 553rd | 1957 rank: 87th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 30 votes)
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12/25/2025 00:53 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,79170/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 75.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.0.

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Best Albums of 1957
1. Here's Little Richard by Little Richard
2. Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
3. The "Chirping" Crickets by The Crickets
4. Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins
5. Birth Of The Cool by Miles Davis
6. 'Round About Midnight by Miles Davis
7. With His Hot And Blue Guitar by Johnny Cash
8. After School Session by Chuck Berry
9. Ray Charles by Ray Charles
10. Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet by Miles Davis Quintet
11. Monk's Music by Thelonious Monk Septet
12. Miles Ahead by Miles Davis + 19
13. The Clown by Charles Mingus
14. Dance Album by Carl Perkins
15. After Midnight by Nat King Cole
16. Singin' The Blues by B.B. King
17. Way Out West by Sonny Rollins
18. Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps by Gene Vincent
19. Singin' To My Baby by Eddie Cochran With The Johnny Mann Orchestra And Chorus
20. Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook by Ella Fitzgerald
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