Who Is Coleman Hawkins

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The first great jazz saxophonist. Hugely influential.

Coleman Hawkins at a Glance 

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21 1904 - May 19 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz tenor saxophonist. Allmusic Biography

He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E. Berendt wrote, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn".

While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he began playing professionally in the early 1920s and was important in the development of bebop in the 1940s. He continued to be influenced...

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Hawk Swings 

Buster Bailey tells how he first heard Coleman Hawkins

When I came into New York I was asking Louis [Armstrong] one night about different guys in the Fletcher Henderson band. He told me about Bug Charlie Green and about a tenor saxophone player -- Hawkins -- he said that gut really swings. It was the first time I had heard the word used in that way, and I didn't know what he meant. Louis tried to explain it. He said, 'Man, he swings! He swings out of this world!' I caught on to what he meant, because after I got to work that night I heard Hawkins. So I knew what he meant. How would I define it now. Swing. A guy that's . . . I still have to use the word swing. I mean a guy who's got a beat -- a certain accent -- a certain attack. Part of it is that you are playing along with the beat.

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