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The Ascent of the Tenor - Coleman Hawkins (1929 - 1939)
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Our guest in this hour is Jeff Decker—saxophonist, composer, educator and member of the jazz performance faculty of the University of Virginia— McIntyre School of Music.
Playlist
- Host Intro 0:00
- McKinney's Cotton Pickers "Wherever There's a Will" from Put It There (Frog) 3:03
- Mound City Blue Blowers "One Hour" from The Norton Jazz Recordings (Norton) 5:59
- Host speaks 9:26
- Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra "Queer Notions" from Big Band: Vol. 002, Fletcher Henderson (1932-33) (Encyclopedia of Jazz) 10:55
- Horace Henderson and his Orchestra "I've Got to Sing a Torch Song" from Coleman Hawkins: 1929 -1934 (Classics) 13:42
- Host speaks 17:18
- Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra "Hocus Pocus" from Big Band: Vol. 002, Fletcher Henderson (1932-33) (Encyclopedia of Jazz) 19:04
- Host speaks 22:19
- Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra "Heart-Break Blues" from Coleman Hawkins: 1929 -1934 (Classics) 24:01
- Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra "Jamaica Shout" from Coleman Hawkins: 1929 -1934 (Classics) 27:28
- Henry "Red" Allen -Coleman Hawkins and their Orchestra "Dark Clouds" from Swing Time: Vol. 001, Henry "Red" Allen (1933-35) (Encyclopedia of Jazz) 30:25
- Host speaks 33:26
- Coleman Hawkins -Stanley Black duo "Lost in a Fog" from The Essential Sides Remastered 1934-1936 (JSP) 34:38
- Coleman Hawkins -Stanley Black duo "Honeysuckle Rose" from The Essential Sides Remastered 1934-1936 (JSP) 37:40
- Host speaks 40:42
- Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Jam Band "Honeysuckle Rose" from Swing Time: Vol. 031, Coleman Hawkins (1936-38) (Encyclopedia of Jazz) 44:48
- Coleman Hawkins & His All Star Jam Band "Crazy Rhythm" from Swing Time: Vol. 031, Coleman Hawkins (1936-38) (Encyclopedia of Jazz) 47:32
- Host speaks 50:30
- Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra "Meet Doctor Foo" from Coleman Hawkins: 1939 -1940 (Classics) 52:07
- Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra "Body and Soul" from The Norton Jazz Recordings (Norton) 54:39
- Host speaks 57:40
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