This concert is a rarity: Racism and the disrespect for improvised music in the "homeland of jazz" have driven more and more Americans to Europe in the 50s and 60s. The pleasant cultural climate and better working conditions were the main reasons for the European exile. Among others, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke and Oscar Pettiford, who shaped the bebop style as of the 40s, were living in Paris. On the occasion of the Jazztage in Essen 1960 this trio appeared on stage, joined in the second half of the concert by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. His Essen performance with three bop-icons was anything but an aesthetical mismatch: The saxophonist, an ideal intermediary between tradition and modernity, has been close to young avant-gardists since the 1940s. Powell, Clarke as well as Pettiford, with whom he ran a trio in 1945, were well known to him. The final composition "Stuffy" is exemplary for the style-mix, this semi-bebop Coleman Hawkins started to cultivate back then. First-time release of the legendary concert on LP (180g special edition); Advertisements in all major German jazz- and music magazines, e.g. Jazzthing, Jazzpodium, Fono Forum, among others; Reviews in all leading daily papers, journals and magazines; Radio programmes about the releases.