Although Adolphe Sax actually invented the saxophone, in the jazz world the title "Father of the Tenor Saxophone" became justly associated with Coleman Hawkins ... Extensive 2 CD overview: 34 years of ...

1 Body and Soul 2 Wherever There's a Will, Baby 3 If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight 4 Hello Lola 5 Hocus Pocus 6 One Sweet Letter From You 7 Dinah 8 Bouncing With Bean 9 Say It Isn't So 10 Half ...

Though it won't get the attention of the recent Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong centennials, the 100th anniversary of Coleman Hawkins' birth, coming up on November 21, certainly warrants celebration ...

JazzWax tracks: Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions: 1922-1947 (Mosaic), an eight-CD set, is available here. The 50-page, large-size glossy booklet features in-depth liner notes by Loren ...

Bird of Prey Blues; My One and Only Love; Vignette; Ooh-Wee, Miss G.P.!; You've Changed; Get Set; Sunday; Hanid; Honey Flower; Honey Flower [alternate take]; Nabob ...

There's a new Coleman Hawkins ... of a three-CD Hawk Select, this will be a fullblown seven-CD box, covering much of Hawkins on record from the mid-1920s to the mid-1940s. Jazz musician and ...

I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me; Day by Day; Embraceable You; Moonglow; Sweet Georgia Brown. Coleman Hawkins: tenor saxophone; Roy Eldridge: trumpet; Pete ...

Hawkins had been Monk’s first employer in the clubs of midtown Manhattan, and had given Monk his first recording date. Fifty years ago this past year, Coleman Hawkins, considered the father of tenor ...

eight-disc Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947. Hawkins, you might say, has suffered some discographical blues. If you ever took a jazz class in college—or if you can name a dozen jazz ...

Coleman Hawkins single-handedly brought the saxophone to the prominence in jazz that the instrument enjoys. Before he hit the scene, jazz groups had little use for the instrument. One player (forgot ...

There's a new Coleman Hawkins ... of a three-CD Hawk Select, this will be a fullblown seven-CD box, covering much of Hawkins on record from the mid-1920s to the mid-1940s. Jazz musician and ...