Coleman Hawkins - 17 Original Albums [CD de audio] Coleman Hawkins

*Coleman Hawkins, nicknamed „Hawk“ or „Bean“, is known a steh father of the tenor sax and was one of the most influential soloists on the instrument *Seventeen original albums from his “hardbop”-years * “I learned to play ballads by listening to Hawk” (Miles Davis) .... Tenor-saxophonist Coleman „The Hawk“ Hawkins (1904-1969) was one of the most important instrumentalists of Jazz. The „father of the saxophone“ conquered this hitherto unpopular instrument for Jazz and influenced generations to come. He had a strong personality, a great presence, and an enormous musical inquisitiveness, so that he remained stylistically up to date until well into the 1960s. From 1924 on he was a member of the newly formed Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, which also included Louis Armstrong for a year, and soon became the first major jazz ensemble. From 1934 to 1939 Hawkins lived in Europe, where he enjoyed great popularity and recorded with European and American musicians. After returning to New York he had