An interesting Coleman Hawkins album that's unavailable and virtually unknown today is Coleman Hawkins Meets the Big Sax Section. Originally entitled The Saxophone Section, Featuring Coleman Hawkins, ...

An interesting Coleman Hawkins album that's unavailable and virtually unknown today is Coleman Hawkins Meets the Big Sax Section. Originally entitled The Saxophone Section, Featuring Coleman Hawkins, ...

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 ...

1. Chant 2. Juicy Fruit 3. Think Deep 4. Laura 5. Blue Lights 6. Sancticity. Coleman Hawkins - tenor sax; Idrees Sulieman - trumpet; JJ Johnson - trombone; Hank Jones - piano; Barry Galbraith - guitar ...

“Good playing, precise playing,” says Coleman Hawkins, “has no date—it goes on and on forever.” Tenorman Hawkins should know what he is talking about. The man who gave the saxophone to ...

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 ...

For the guitar, there is Segovia; for the cello, Casals; and for the tenor saxophone, there was Coleman Hawkins. Before him, the instrument was a straw among the winds, used only for nasal accents ...

He knew that saxophonists like Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young were instrumental in helping the saxophone gain popularity in the jazz world. "So I said, 'This would be great to do a book about ...