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Backgrounder: Coleman Hawkins 'Desafinado' 1962
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Over two days In September 1962, Impulse producer Bob Thiele brought Coleman Hawkins into Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., for a bossa nova session. By then, Paul Winter, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Herbie Mann, among others, had recorded albums using the new Brazilian rhythm. The key question was whether the old-school Hawkins would grasp how to play the light, hip new sound. Thiele was convinced he would, and he was right. Hawkins had set the ...
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