COLEMAN HAWKINS – BODY AND SOUL LP – Nr MINT JAZZ

Coleman Hawkins – The Complete Coleman Hawkins – Vol 1 – Body And Soul
(RCA Records    FXM17325)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– a little wear to edges/corners

Vinyl in nr MINT condition

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 denied being first and noted his contemporaries 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’s 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 musicduring the big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.

“The Complete Coleman Hawkins – Volume 1 (1924-1940) – Body And Soul” is an album by American jazz tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.

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