Latest Release
- Body & Soul (Remastered) · 1996
- Hawkins + Eldridge + Gillespie + Stitt - Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden May 20th. 1958 (Live Restauración 2023) · 2023
- Hawkins + Eldridge + Gillespie + Stitt - Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden May 20th. 1958 (Live Restauración 2023) · 2023
- Hawkins + Eldridge + Gillespie + Stitt - Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden May 20th. 1958 (Live Restauración 2023) · 2023
- Hawkins + Eldridge + Gillespie + Stitt - Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden May 20th. 1958 (Live Restauración 2023) · 2023
- Hawkins + Eldridge + Gillespie + Stitt - Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden May 20th. 1958 (Live Restauración 2023) · 2023
- Hawkins + Eldridge + Gillespie + Stitt - Konserthuset, Stockholm Sweden May 20th. 1958 (Live Restauración 2023) · 2023
- Saxophone Session · 2023
- Lift it Up!, Vol. IV: Global Players · 2022
- Hot Jazz · 2020
Essential Albums
- 2014
Artist Playlists
- A crash course in expeditionary zeal and a tenor saxophone.
- Dance band riffs and lush asides from the tenor sax poet.
Appears On
- Spike Hughes
About Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins was the first great tenor saxophonist, one of those who did the most to establish that instrument's role in jazz. When he joined the Fletcher Henderson band in 1924, Hawkins's smooth legato and powerful sense of swing, combined with an unusually broad knowledge of harmony and theory, quickly made him the dominant tenor man of the time. His return in 1939 from a long period in Europe was capped by a record date that included a watershed version of "Body and Soul." One of the few older musicians to embrace the intricacies of bebop, Hawkins continually challenged himself throughout a long and illustrious career.
- HOMETOWN
- St. Joseph, MO, United States
- BORN
- 21 November 1904
- GENRE
- Jazz