Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins Plays "Stuffy"
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Album:Norman Granz' J.A.T.P. Carnegie Hall, 1949
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A Precursor to Bebop
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Track:Body And Soul - (with Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra)
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Coleman Hawkins Channels "Mood Indigo"
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Album:Duke Ellington Meets 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, bef
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COLEMAN HAWKINS: The Hawk Flies High
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Although Coleman Hawkins was 51 when THE HAWK FLIES HIGH was recorded in 1957, he hadn't lost any of the vigor or imaginative dexterity that had typified his original work in the `30s and `40s. In fact, one of Hawkins's greatest assets was his ability to adapt to and incorporate changing styles, and that's precisely what he does here by bringing his swing-inflected chops into a straigh...
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