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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's 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. While Hawkins became known with swing music during the big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.
Top Tracks
- 1
Cocktails For Two
Verve Jazz Masters 34: Coleman Hawkins
- 2
Cocktails For Two
Coleman Hawkins And Confrères (Expanded Edition)
- 3
Limbo Jazz
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
- 4
Think Deep
The Hawk Flies High
- 5
Rosita
Ultimate Coleman Hawkins
- 6
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Verve Jazz Masters 43: Ben Webster
- 7
Tangerine
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (Expanded Edition)
- 8
It's The Talk Of The Town (Live At The Village Gate, NYC, 1962)
Hawkins! Alive! At The Village Gate (Live, 1962 - Expanded Edition)
- 9
Mood Indigo
Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
- 10
C-Jam Blues (Live At The Village Vanguard/1965)
Grand Reunion Recorded Live At The Village Vanguard
