Results for "Coleman Hawkins"

Candido: Fountain of Youth

by AAJ Staff
December 22, 2008

By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...

Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

by Samuel Chell
April 6, 2008

This extraordinary 1962 session was the realization of a promise made thirty years earlier between the maestro, Duke Ellington, and the father of the tenor saxophone, Coleman Hawkins, that they would some day make a record together. Released a mere two months ahead of the largely iconic Ellington-Coltrane meeting, the earlier date is distinguished by the ...

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite

By Max Roach

Label: Candid Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Driva' Man; Freedom Day; Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace); All Africa; Tears For Johannesburg.

The Hawk Relaxes

By Coleman Hawkins

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1961
Track listing: I'll Never Be the Same; When Day Is Done; Under a Blanket of Blue; More Than You Know; Moonglow; Just a Gigolo; Speak Low.

Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Relaxes

by Samuel Chell
April 9, 2007

Coleman Hawkins had every right to rest on his laurels by the time of this 1961 recording. But The Hawk Relaxes finds the father of the tenor saxophone--aka Hawk or Bean--doing anything but clinging to his perch. He may no longer be soaring in search of prey but he's gliding on buoyant and vital air-streams, performing ...

Disorder at the Border

Featuring the music of Coleman Hawkins
Duration: 9:24
January 5, 2007

Body and Soul Remixed!

By Coleman Hawkins

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2006
Track listing: Your Body, My Soul; Soddy and Bowl; Bloody and Us; Version 39; Writing In Water; Soul and Body.

The Bebop Years

By Coleman Hawkins

Label: Sound Grammar
Released: 2006

The Hawk Relaxes

By Coleman Hawkins

Label: Sound Grammar
Released: 2006

At Ease with Coleman Hawkins

By Coleman Hawkins

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: For You, For Me, Forevermore; While We're Young; Then I'll Be Tired of You; Mighty Like a Rose; At Dawning; Trouble Is a Man; Poor Butterfly; I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You).