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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins was one of the leading American jazz players of the pre-war era
and is widely credited with the being one of the first to see the potential of
the tenor sax as a solo instrument in jazz.
Hawkins attended high school in Topeka, Kansas and benefited from a musical
education which included studying harmony and composition as well as learning
the piano and cello. He moved to New York in the early 1920s joining the Jazz
Hounds led by vaudeville singer Mamie Smith. In the 1930s Hawkins' reputation as
a gifted sax player grew and he performed on some of the best known...
Stompin' at the SavoyColeman Hawkins
Then I'll Be Tired Of YouRed Garland and Coleman Hawkins
Body and SoulColeman Hawkins and Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
Prisoner of LoveColeman Hawkins and Ben Webster
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home ToColeman Hawkins and Ben Webster
Someone to Watch over MeColeman Hawkins and Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
Stompin' at the SavoyColeman Hawkins
Complete Jazz Series 1953 - 1954
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Then I'll Be Tired Of YouRed Garland and Coleman Hawkins
5:11
Body and SoulColeman Hawkins and Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
Hawks Groove
1:12
Prisoner of LoveColeman Hawkins and Ben Webster
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
4:13
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home ToColeman Hawkins and Ben Webster
The Brute And The Beautiful
4:16
Someone to Watch over MeColeman Hawkins and Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
Complete Jazz Series 1944 - 1945 Vol. 2
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