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Disorder at the Border: The Music of Coleman Hawkins
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Disorder At The Border; La Rosita; Bean & The Boys; Honeysuckle Rose; Body And Soul; Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho.
Bennie Wallace: Disorder at the Border: The Music of Coleman Hawkins
by J Hunter
Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins' musical footprints stretch back to the 1920s, when he played with Louis Armstrong in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra. It's true that Hawkins was one of the forerunners of bebop, and went on to play and record with Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and John Coltrane. But Hawk's signature recording of the standard “Body and ...
Bennie Wallace: Disorder at the Border: The Music of Coleman Hawkins
by Robert R. Calder
This is a stomping band, as Coleman Hawkins said of the Fletcher Henderson orchestra he -- and the hitherto mostly awkward tenor saxophone -- grew up together with. Louis Armstrong and his hero the great cellist Pablo Casals inspired Hawkins' phrasing and timing, Art Tatum and J.S. Bach his harmonic command. His nickname “Bean" referred to ...
