COLEMAN HAWKINS
Name: Coleman Hawkins
Birth name: Coleman Randolph Hawkins
Born: 21 November 1904 Saint Joseph, Missouri
Died: 19 May 1969 (aged 64)
Genre(s): Swing music, Bebop
Instrument: tenor saxophone
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904-May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and
sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz tenor saxophonist.
He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to
use the instrument: Joachim E. Berendt wrote, "there were some tenor players
before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn".
While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era,
he began playing professionally in the early 1920s and was important in the
development of bebop in the 1940s. He continued to be influenced by the avant-garde
jazz of the 1950s and '60s.
Name: Coleman Hawkins
Birth name: Coleman Randolph Hawkins
Born: 21 November 1904 Saint Joseph, Missouri
Died: 19 May 1969 (aged 64)
Genre(s): Swing music, Bebop
Instrument: tenor saxophone
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904-May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and
sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz tenor saxophonist.
He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to
use the instrument: Joachim E. Berendt wrote, "there were some tenor players
before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn".
While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era,
he began playing professionally in the early 1920s and was important in the
development of bebop in the 1940s. He continued to be influenced by the avant-garde
jazz of the 1950s and '60s.