Artist Lounge: Coleman Hawkins
Moggers' favorites by Coleman Hawkins
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With all of the jazz albums out there that have titles like "Such-and-such Meets Such-and-such" — "The Count Meets the Duke", "Lionel Meets the Duke", "Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson", "Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins", etc., etc. — I'd like to see something a bit out of the norm, something like "Duke Ellington Meets Dwight D. Eisenhower". There would be the famous photo of Ike, befuddled and empty-handed, standing in the middle of the exquisite maelstrom of Duk... MORE
In the wee morning hours of October 11, 1939, Coleman Hawkins and his orchestra wrapped up a gig at Kelly's Stable on 52nd street. A scant 6 hours later, the orchestra, a smallish, nine-piece band by the prevailing standards of the swing era, straggled into the recording studio at Victor records. After Hawkins' years of playing as a soloist in a variety of venues and settings in Europe, this recording was supposed to mark Hawkins' triumphal return to the American music s... MORE







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