Coleman Hawkins - High Definition Remasters Vol. 1 (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". Hawkins biographer John Chilton described the prevalent styles of tenor saxophone solos prior to Hawkins as "mooing" and "rubbery belches". Hawkins cited as influences Happy Caldwell, Stump Evans, and Prince Robinson, although he was the first to tailor his method of improvisation to the saxophone rather than imitate the techniques of the clarinet. Hawkins' virtuosic, arpeggiated approach to improvisation, with his characteristic rich, emotional, and vibrato-laden tonal style, was the main influence on a generation of tenor players that included Chu Berry, Charlie Barnet, Tex Beneke, Ben Webster, Vido Musso, Herschel Evans, Buddy Tate, and Don Byas, and through them the later tenormen, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ike Quebec, Al Sears, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. While Hawkins became known with swing music during the big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.

Fellow saxophonist Lester Young, known as the "President of the Tenor Saxophone", commented, in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review: "As far as I'm concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the president, first, right? As far as myself, I think I'm the second one." Miles Davis once said: "When I heard Hawk, I learned to play ballads."

TRACKLIST

1. Coleman Hawkins - La Vie En Rose (Remastered 2023)
2. Coleman Hawkins - Baubles, Bangles And Beads (Remastered 2023)
3. Coleman Hawkins - Wanting You (Remastered 2022)
4. Coleman Hawkins - Dinner For One Please, James (Remastered 2022)
5. Swingville All Stars With Coleman Hawkins - So Glad (Remastered 2022)
6. Coleman Hawkins - Under Paris Skies (Remastered 2023)
7. Coleman Hawkins - Blue Room (Remastered 2022)
8. Coleman Hawkins - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Remastered 2022)
9. Coleman Hawkins - Autumn Leaves (Remastered 2023)
10. Coleman Hawkins - Have You Met Miss Jones (Remastered 2022)
11. Coleman Hawkins - Bean In Orbit (Remastered 2022)
12. Coleman Hawkins - Running Wild (Remastered 2022)
13. Coleman Hawkins - Mimi (Remastered 2023)
14. Coleman Hawkins - It Had To Be You (Remastered 2023)
15. Coleman Hawkins - The Breeze And I (Remastered 2022)
16. Coleman Hawkins - Strange Music (Remastered 2022)
17. Coleman Hawkins - I Never Knew (Remastered 2022)
18. Coleman Hawkins - I'm Shooting High (Remastered 2022)
19. Swingville All Stars With Coleman Hawkins - I Want To Be Happy (Remastered 2022)
20. Coleman Hawkins - After Midnight (Remastered 2022)



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