a free-form jazz session. And it was marvelous. Here's Billie Holiday singing "Fine and Mellow" with a sax line of — get this Murray — Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, and Lester Young —who was ...

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 ...

The sound I saw combines felicitously three art forms: jazz, photography, and poetry. It is a large (10.25 x 1.2 x 13.25 ... Fifty years ago this past year, Coleman Hawkins, considered the father of ...

This article highlights 20 influential jazz artists from the 1920s ... which included future stars like Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, was one of the most influential bands of the 1920s.

Tenor saxophonist Coleman ... showmen at heart--Hawkins as an imposing and chameleon-like improviser and Grimes as a blues master and r&b showboater. Their first two sessions were in 1944. A third ...

Hawkfest founder, Alonzo Weston, said he and friends created the jazz festival to celebrate the life and talents of Coleman Hawkins while introducing St. Joseph residents to the art that is jazz ...

Coleman Hawkins had every right to rest on his laurels by ... When the history of the tenor saxophone was being written primarily by two artists—Hawkins and Lester Young—every tenor player either had ...

The original image features 57 jazz musicians — including Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Art Blakey, Lester Young, Count Basie and Gerry Mulligan — gathered ...

In the beginning, there was Coleman ... the above jazz saxophone genealogy? Unlike a hereditary genealogy, artistic genealogies are practically impossible to draw convincingly. Art doesn’t ...

Yesterday, I spent a chunk of the day listening to tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins while writing ... and J.C. Heard (d).... Here's Hawk on TV's Art Ford's Jazz Party in 1958... Here's Hawk in London ...

December 8, 2016 • In 2010, the acquisition of William Savory's legendary collection of almost 1,000 live recordings had jazz fans salivating. Now, 40 restored tracks from the Savory archives ...