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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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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Put Your Head On My Shoulder
Coleman Hawkins
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Celie's New House/Body And Soul (The Color Purple/Soundtrack Version)
Quincy Jones
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Ballade (Film Short Soundtrack Recording)
Charlie Parker
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Razzle Dazzle
Coleman Hawkins
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Soul Blues
Coleman Hawkins

Albums

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On Prestige

Album • 2024
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Embraceable You

Album • 2022
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Out of Nowhere

Album • 2018
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1946-1947

Album • 2024
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Coleman Hawkins Quintet Featuring Teddy Wilson at the Piano

Album • 2020
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The Hawk and the Hunter

Album • 2018
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Hawkins + Eldridge + Gillespie + Stitt - Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden May 20th. 1958 (Live Restauración 2023)

Album • 2023
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The King of the Tenor Sax

EP • 2020
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My Blue Heaven

Album • 2023
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Bean and the Boys

Album • 2020

Singles

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Sweet Georgia Brown

2021
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Out of Nowhere (feat. Benny Carter)

2021
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Moodsville

2016
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Body and Soul

2009

Videos

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Charlie Parker (Ballade)

julio radrigan • 6.4K views
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Tuba Skinny_Variety Stomp (1927)

Mis Fozje • 52K views
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Coleman Hawkins - Stardust - Paris, 02.03.1935

Heinz Becker • 5.2K views
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Coleman Hawkins - Soul blues

simonsaid66 • 777K views
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Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins Oscar Peterson IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND

Vintage Recordings • 514 views
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Cocktails For Two – Coleman Hawkins

John Juan • 2.2K views
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Ray Conniff: El Mar (Brazil, 1999)

Daniel Victor Lima • 1.5K views
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Well You Needn't, arr. Mike Kamuf - Score & Sound

Alfred Music Jazz • 315K views
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Coleman Hawkins

Snotty Gigglebutt • 452K views
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Marco Leonardi

Moonlightnoir • 8.3K views

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Presenting Sonny Rollins

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Jazz Feels the Blues

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Mellow Jazz

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Dinner Party Jazz

Playlist • YouTube Music

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