Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins, 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". While Hawkins is strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth21 November 1904
CountryUnited States of America
Music should always be an adventure.
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else
If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.
You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.