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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: "There were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". Hawkins biographer John Chilton described the prevalent styles of tenor saxophone solos prior to Hawkins as "mooing" and "rubbery belches". Hawkins denied being first and noted his contemporaries Happy Caldwell, Stump Evans, and Prince Robinson, although he was the first to tailor his method of improvisation to the saxophone rather than imitate the techniques of the clarinet. Hawkins' virtuosic, arpeggiated approach to improvisation, with his characteristic rich, emotional, and vibrato-laden tonal style, was the main influence on a generation of tenor players that included Chu Berry, Charlie Barnet, Tex Beneke, Ben Webster, Vido Musso, Herschel Evans, Buddy Tate, and Don Byas, and through them the later tenormen, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ike Quebec, Al Sears, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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Don't Take Your Love From Me
Coleman Hawkins
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Celie's New House/Body And Soul (The Color Purple/Soundtrack Version)
Quincy Jones
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Soul Blues
Coleman Hawkins
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Ballade (Film Short Soundtrack Recording)
Charlie Parker
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Tangerine
Coleman Hawkins

Albums

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On Prestige

2024
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Embraceable You

2022
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The Hawk and the Hunter

2018
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1946-1947

2024
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Coleman Hawkins Quintet Featuring Teddy Wilson at the Piano

2020
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The Top 50 Jazztunes

2013
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Hawkins + Eldridge + Gillespie + Stitt - Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden May 20th. 1958 (Live Restauración 2023)

2023
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Bean and the Boys

2020
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My Blue Heaven

2023
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Out of Nowhere

2018

Singles & EPs

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Sweet Georgia Brown

Single • 2021
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The Hawk Swings

EP • 2013
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Vintage Dance Orchestras No. 280 - EP: All The Cats Join In

EP • 1956
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Out of Nowhere (feat. Benny Carter)

Single • 2021
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Body and Soul

Single • 2009
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The King of the Tenor Sax

EP • 2020
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Back In Bean's Bag

EP • 1963
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Moodsville

Single • 2016
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The Enja Heritage Collection: Supreme

EP • 2018

Videos

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Coleman Hawkins & Papa Jo Jones Ignite 'Caravan' (1964) 🎷🔥🥁

Hip Washboards • 510 views
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Marco Leonardi

Moonlightnoir • 8.4K views
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Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins Oscar Peterson IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND

Vintage Recordings • 533 views
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Coleman Hawkins - Body and Soul.avi

Francisco José Bessone • 2.2K views
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Coleman Hawkins

Snotty Gigglebutt • 457K views
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Cocktails For Two – Coleman Hawkins

John Juan • 2.3K views
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Alan Davie

inesvigo • 936 views
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Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins - Prisioner of Love

marie maurice I • 28K views
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Charlie Parker-Coleman Hawkins Ballade - YouTube.m4v

sara kyoto • 12K views
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Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins - You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to (1944)

SpazioSonoro & Intrattenimento • 1.1K views

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