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- NAME: Coleman Randolph Hawkins
- OCCUPATION: Saxophonist
- BIRTH DATE: November 21, 1904
- DEATH DATE: May 19, 1969
- PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Jospeph, Missouri
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Coleman Hawkins was the first major saxophonist in the history of jazz and helped establish the saxophone as one of the most popular instruments in jazz.
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While playing with Fletcher Henderson's big band between 1923 and 1934, Coleman Hawkins became acknowledged as one of the great jazz artists. He left the band to tour for five years and then returned to the United States in 1939 to recording the hit “Body and Soul.” Hawkins was one of the first improvisational jazz horn players and influenced many of the great saxophonists of the swing era.© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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Famous Jazz Musicians
View groupWith its roots in the blues, jazz has been referred to as America's classical music, yet has also become a major global phenomenon, branching off into a variety of forms. Earlier pioneers like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton paved the way for the swinging big-band sounds of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. In contrast, contemporaries Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk developed bebop, with its speedy, dissonant harmonies and improvisations. And Miles Davis heralded the birth of cool jazz, modal jazz and fusion at different points in his career. Famous jazz instrumentalists have tended to be male, yet women have been at the forefront of the genre when it comes to vocalization, from the brassy blues of Bessie Smith to the haunting eclecticism of Nina Simone.
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View groupSaxophonists have been an integral part of the American jazz scene, with the timbres of their chosen instrument often at the center of layered compositions. Coleman Hawkins was the first American jazz saxophonist to become famous during the 1920s-30s. Jimmy Dorsey and Johnny Hodges also had major success with big bands during jazz's heyday as a popular music juggernaut, while Lester Young popularized the West Coast, cool style. Later, soprano and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane created pioneering works that ranged from "sheets of sound" bebop to unbound, rhythmically complex free jazz. And Branford Marsalis has taken his sax to great heights in non-jazz arenas; he's toured with rock artist Sting and served as musical director for The Tonight Show.
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