Coleman Hawkins

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Body and Soul 00:00 Tools
Greensleeves 03:16 Tools
Michelle 03:31 Tools
Desafinado 05:50 Tools
Picasso 00:00 Tools
April in Paris 00:00 Tools
La Rosita 05:07 Tools
Someone to Watch Over Me 00:00 Tools
Rosita 00:00 Tools
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 04:37 Tools
The Man I Love 05:14 Tools
Stardust 03:15 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
When Day Is Done 00:00 Tools
O Pato (The Duck) 00:00 Tools
Cocktails for Two 00:00 Tools
Samba Para Bean 00:00 Tools
Out of Nowhere 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Be the Same 00:00 Tools
Think Deep 00:00 Tools
Like Someone In Love 00:00 Tools
Stumpy Bossa Nova 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) 05:57 Tools
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 00:00 Tools
Indian Summer 00:00 Tools
It Never Entered My Mind 05:51 Tools
Rifftide 02:56 Tools
What a Difference a Day Makes 00:00 Tools
Fine Dinner 00:00 Tools
Stuffy 00:00 Tools
I Remember You 00:00 Tools
The Sheik of Araby 00:00 Tools
Angel Face 00:00 Tools
Tangerine 00:00 Tools
Shine On Harvest Moon 00:00 Tools
In A Mellow Tone 00:00 Tools
My Blue Heaven 00:00 Tools
Chant 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo 00:00 Tools
Prisoner Of Love 00:00 Tools
Bean And The Boys 00:00 Tools
Laura 00:00 Tools
Bouncing With Bean 00:00 Tools
Under a Blanket of Blue 00:00 Tools
I Wished On The Moon 00:00 Tools
Crazy Rhythm 00:00 Tools
I Only Have Eyes for You 00:00 Tools
Meet Doctor Foo 00:00 Tools
Say It Isn't So 00:00 Tools
She's Funny That Way 03:17 Tools
How Strange 00:00 Tools
Then I'll Be Tired Of You 05:11 Tools
Blues for Yolande 00:00 Tools
I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) 06:39 Tools
Queer Notions 02:34 Tools
Body & Soul 03:01 Tools
Rainbow Mist 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is the Ocean 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Just a Gigolo 02:56 Tools
It's The Talk Of The Town 00:00 Tools
I Want to Be Loved 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Your Love From Me 00:00 Tools
My Melancholy Baby 00:00 Tools
Bean at the Met 00:00 Tools
Juicy Fruit 00:00 Tools
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 00:00 Tools
On the Sunny Side of the Street 04:45 Tools
More Than You Know 00:00 Tools
Blue Lights 00:00 Tools
Until the Real Thing Comes Along 00:00 Tools
My Ideal 00:00 Tools
Stasch 00:00 Tools
Moonglow 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At the Savoy 00:00 Tools
Limbo Jazz 00:00 Tools
Self Portrait (Of The Bean) 00:00 Tools
While We're Young 03:25 Tools
Trouble Is A Man 00:00 Tools
Hanid 00:00 Tools
Speak Low 06:41 Tools
Night and Day 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Isn't It Romantic 00:00 Tools
Un Abraco No Bonfa (An Embrace To Bonfa) 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia: Hot Mallets 00:00 Tools
Soul Blues 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
Sancticity 00:00 Tools
Just One of Those Things 04:33 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 00:00 Tools
Wanderlust 00:00 Tools
I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover (Jazz Samba) 00:00 Tools
I Love Paris 00:00 Tools
Fine Dinner - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Night Hawk 00:00 Tools
The Bean Stalks Again 00:00 Tools
Mighty Like A Rose 00:00 Tools
I Mean You 00:00 Tools
What Is There To Say? 00:00 Tools
Avalon 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands 02:32 Tools
Spotlite 00:00 Tools
Quintessence 00:00 Tools
Jamaica Shout 00:00 Tools
Pedalin' 00:00 Tools
Through for the Night 00:00 Tools
Lost In A Fog 00:00 Tools
Don't Love Me 00:00 Tools
At Dawning 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loves Me 00:00 Tools
Stumpy 00:00 Tools
'S Wonderful 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 10:17 Tools
Half Step Down, Please 00:00 Tools
Woody'n You 00:00 Tools
Wrap Up Your Troubles In Dreams 00:00 Tools
Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
For You, For Me, For Evermore 00:00 Tools
The Stampede 00:00 Tools
Sweet Loraine 00:00 Tools
Disorder At the Border 00:00 Tools
On the Bean 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me 00:00 Tools
You're Blase 00:00 Tools
Phantomesque 00:00 Tools
How Strange - Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Big Head 00:00 Tools
Flyin' Hawk 00:00 Tools
The Sweetest Sounds 00:00 Tools
I Surrender Dear 00:00 Tools
Under Paris Skies 00:00 Tools
There's No You 00:00 Tools
La Vie en Rose 00:00 Tools
Drifting On a Reed 00:00 Tools
April in Paris - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Bean Soup 00:00 Tools
Sunday Mornin' 00:00 Tools
Recollections 00:00 Tools
Chicago 00:00 Tools
Groovin' 00:00 Tools
There Is No Greater Love 08:19 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
I Hadn't Anyone Till You 00:00 Tools
How Strange - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Ray Charles' Place 00:00 Tools
Just Friends 00:00 Tools
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me 00:00 Tools
Voodte 00:00 Tools
One Hour 00:00 Tools
Perdido 00:00 Tools
Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Meditation 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going On? 00:00 Tools
Dedication 00:00 Tools
It Sends Me 00:00 Tools
Get happy 00:00 Tools
Some of These Days 00:00 Tools
Intermezzo 00:00 Tools
The Day You Came Along 00:00 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sweetnin' 00:00 Tools
Lover Come Back To Me 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Were Twins 00:00 Tools
Hollywood Stampede 00:00 Tools
Wrapped Tight 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
Consolation 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
Bean-A-Re-Bop 00:00 Tools
I Love Paris - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Blue Moon 00:00 Tools
Bu-Dee-Daht 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul - 2000 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Too Much of a Good Thing 00:00 Tools
Blues for Rene 00:00 Tools
Driva Man 00:00 Tools
I'm in the Mood for Love 00:00 Tools
Netcha's Dream 00:00 Tools
Every Man For Himself 00:00 Tools
Under Paris Skies - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Salt Peanuts 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You 00:00 Tools
When Day Is Done - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Woody 'n' You 00:00 Tools
Hawk's Variation (Pt. 1) 00:00 Tools
Porgy 00:00 Tools
Just One More Chance 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight) 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah! 00:00 Tools
Out To Lunch 00:00 Tools
My Blue Heaven - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew 00:00 Tools
In the Hush of the Night 00:00 Tools
For You, For Me, Forevermore 00:00 Tools
Angel Face - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Since I Fell For You 00:00 Tools
Smack 00:00 Tools
September Song 00:00 Tools
Hello, Lola 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
You Blew Out The Flame In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Spellbound 00:00 Tools
Red Beans 00:00 Tools
Bean's Place 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning To See The Light 00:00 Tools
Feedin' the Bean 00:00 Tools
I'm Through with Love 00:00 Tools
There's A Small Hotel 00:00 Tools
Love Song from "apache" 00:00 Tools
Uptown Lullaby 00:00 Tools
It's Only a Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
Pick-Up Boys 00:00 Tools
Cloudy 00:00 Tools
Bouncing With Bean - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
What Harlem Is to Me 00:00 Tools
Feeling Zero 00:00 Tools
Sweet And Lovely 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Carioca 02:28 Tools
The Essence of You 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands (Live) 00:00 Tools
Meet Doctor Foo - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Dinah 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
A Shanty in Old Shanty Town 00:00 Tools
Stealin' the Bean 00:00 Tools
Rocky Comfort 00:00 Tools
Bean's Talking Again 00:00 Tools
Basin Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Midnight Sun 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba 00:00 Tools
Look Out Jack 00:00 Tools
I Know That You Know 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
I Surrender, Dear 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good) 00:00 Tools
Moodsville 00:00 Tools
Rhythm Crazy 00:00 Tools
Half Step Down Please 00:00 Tools
Hawk Eyes 00:00 Tools
And so to Sleep Again 00:00 Tools
Hocus Pocus 00:00 Tools
When The Day Is Done 00:00 Tools
Lover Man 00:00 Tools
Confessin' 00:00 Tools
Midnight Blues 00:00 Tools
One O'clock Jump 00:00 Tools
Go Li'l Liza 00:00 Tools
O Pato 00:00 Tools
La Mer 00:00 Tools
His Very Own Blues 00:00 Tools
Jumping for Jane 00:00 Tools
You Go to My Head 00:00 Tools
What a Difference a Day Made 00:00 Tools
Bugle Call Rag 00:00 Tools
Un Abraco No Bonfa (An Embrace To Bonfa) 00:00 Tools
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans 00:00 Tools
April In Paris (12-11-47) 00:00 Tools
Sugar Foot Stomp 00:00 Tools
Blues Evermore 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Got Nobody 00:00 Tools
My One And Only Love 00:00 Tools
Honey Flower 00:00 Tools
Ruby 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loves Me (Live) 00:00 Tools
Under Paris Skies - 1995 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Make Someone Happy 00:00 Tools
Red Roses For A Blue Lady 00:00 Tools
It's a Blue World 00:00 Tools
Bird Of Prey Blues 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going On 00:00 Tools
A Strange Fact 00:00 Tools
Samba De Uma Nota So(One Note Samba) 00:00 Tools
Hello Lola 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Scotch 00:00 Tools
How High the Moon 00:00 Tools
Hawkins' Barrel House 00:00 Tools
Stardust / I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
Smiles 00:00 Tools
Sweetheart You Are Lonely 00:00 Tools
Sunday 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Esquire Bounce 00:00 Tools
Blues for Ron 00:00 Tools
Sweethearts on Parade 00:00 Tools
And I Still Love You 00:00 Tools
Cattin' At Keynote 00:00 Tools
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree 00:00 Tools
Day By Day - Live (1957/Newport) 00:00 Tools
She's Funny That Way - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
C'mon In 00:00 Tools
Louise 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Girl 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Go Back To Harlem 00:00 Tools
Devotion 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (2001 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
As Long As We'Re Here 00:00 Tools
Organ Grinder's Swing 00:00 Tools
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet 00:00 Tools
I Never Had a Chance 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones 00:00 Tools
Bean's Blues 00:00 Tools
Swinging In The Groove 00:00 Tools
Vignette 00:00 Tools
Passin' It Around 00:00 Tools
Blues Changes 00:00 Tools
Marcheta 00:00 Tools
Imagination 00:00 Tools
You've Changed 00:00 Tools
How Strange (12-11-47) 00:00 Tools
I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover 00:00 Tools
Never In A Million Years (with Leslie Scott) 00:00 Tools
Begin the Beguine 00:00 Tools
Hands Across the Table 00:00 Tools
Tea for Two 00:00 Tools
Skrouk 00:00 Tools
Lamentation 00:00 Tools
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face 00:00 Tools
Jammin' In Swingville 00:00 Tools
Blues Wail 00:00 Tools
Maria 00:00 Tools
Woody 'n You 00:00 Tools
Trust In Me 00:00 Tools
Leave My Heart Alone 00:00 Tools
I Wished On The Moon - Stereo Version 00:00 Tools
(It's No) Sin 00:00 Tools
Three Little Words 00:00 Tools
Forgive a Fool 00:00 Tools
Beyond The Blue Horizon 00:00 Tools
Bean Stalking 00:00 Tools
Trouble Is A Man - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Then I'll Be Tired Of You - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Make Believe 00:00 Tools
Get Set 00:00 Tools
When Buddha Smiles 00:00 Tools
My Buddy 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak Blues 00:00 Tools
She's Fit 00:00 Tools
El Salon De Gutbucket 00:00 Tools
Dinner For One Please, James (2001 Remastered - Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Un Abraco No Bonfa 00:00 Tools
Angel Face - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Roll 'Em Pete 00:00 Tools
The Darktown Strutter's Ball 00:00 Tools
The Jeep Is Jumpin' 00:00 Tools
There Is Nothing Like a Dame 00:00 Tools
Dismal Dan 00:00 Tools
Taps Miller 00:00 Tools
Original Dixieland One-Step 00:00 Tools
The Man in Love 00:00 Tools
Lullaby of Birdland 05:17 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones? 00:00 Tools
Thanks for the Misery 00:00 Tools
Blues For Yolande - Stereo Mix 00:00 Tools
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 00:00 Tools
Concerto For Tenor 00:00 Tools
Hello Lola! 00:00 Tools
Something Is Gonna Give Me Away 00:00 Tools
Bah-U-Bah 00:00 Tools
Sih-Sah 00:00 Tools
Battle of the Saxes 00:00 Tools
If I Had You 00:00 Tools
Mack The Knife 00:00 Tools
Spotlite - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Indiana Winter 00:00 Tools
In a Mellotone 00:00 Tools
Sorrow 00:00 Tools
Flame Thrower 00:00 Tools
I'm Yours 00:00 Tools
I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf C 00:00 Tools
Dear Old Southland 00:00 Tools
Nabob 00:00 Tools
Under Paris Skies (Sous le Ciel de Paris) 00:00 Tools
Bean Stalkin' 00:00 Tools
La Chnouf 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You (2001 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Blues For Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Under Paris Skies (1995 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Street Of Dreams 00:00 Tools
Blues for Yolande - incomplete takes 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag 00:00 Tools
The Breeze and I 00:00 Tools
Georgia on My Mind 00:00 Tools
Should I 00:00 Tools
Mighty Like the Blues 00:00 Tools
Mimi 00:00 Tools
Memories of You 00:00 Tools
Stake Out 00:00 Tools
Mademoiselle de Paris 00:00 Tools
I'll See You in My Dreams 00:00 Tools
It May Not Be True 00:00 Tools
Shadows 00:00 Tools
9-20 Special 00:00 Tools
After Midnight 00:00 Tools
My Man 00:00 Tools
9:20 Special 00:00 Tools
Blue Room 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
You Dirty Dog 00:00 Tools
I Talk to the Trees 00:00 Tools
Bean And The Boys (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands (You In My Arms) 00:00 Tools
Song from Moulin Rouge 00:00 Tools
Ornithology 00:00 Tools
Strange Music 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
Heartbreak Blues (A Blues Rhapsody) 00:00 Tools
Bean And The Boys (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Half Step Down, Please - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Serenade to a Sleeping Beauty 00:00 Tools
Over the Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Day By Day 00:00 Tools
One sweet letter from you 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
My Babe 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You 00:00 Tools
Perdido 4:38 (Tizol) 00:00 Tools
On My Way 00:00 Tools
Foolin' Around 00:00 Tools
Almost Dawn 00:00 Tools
Dinner For One Please James 00:00 Tools
One Hour (If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight) 00:00 Tools
Well All Right Then (Live) 00:00 Tools
Sweethearts On Parade (Newman/Lombardo) 00:00 Tools
Blues Evermore (Live) 00:00 Tools
Satin Doll 00:00 Tools
Love Cries... 00:00 Tools
Night Ramble 00:00 Tools
Wanting You 00:00 Tools
My Own Blues 00:00 Tools
Well Alright Then 00:00 Tools
Essence Of Jazz 00:00 Tools
Samba De Uma Note So 00:00 Tools
Father Co-Operates 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Mighty Like the Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Man That Got Away 00:00 Tools
Esquire Blues 00:00 Tools
A Fellow Needs a Girl 00:00 Tools
Get Out of Town 00:00 Tools
Wherever There's A Will, Baby 00:00 Tools
Paris In the Spring 00:00 Tools
Well All Right Then 00:00 Tools
Exactly Like You 00:00 Tools
Allen's Alley 00:00 Tools
Riding On 52nd Street 00:00 Tools
The Bean Stalks Again (2001 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Tres Palabras 00:00 Tools
I've Got to Sing a Torch Song 00:00 Tools
Blues For Yolande - Mono Mix 00:00 Tools
39-25-39 00:00 Tools
Foot Pattin' 00:00 Tools
Here I'll Stay 00:00 Tools
Step On It 00:00 Tools
Just You, Just Me 00:00 Tools
My Buddy (Live) 00:00 Tools
Bean In Orbit 00:00 Tools
April in Paris (1996 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
(It's No) Sin (Hoven/Shull) 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue (Remastered - 2001 - Alternate Take 1) 00:00 Tools
And So To Sleep Again (Marsale/Skylar) 00:00 Tools
Dinner for One, Please James 00:00 Tools
Flight Eleven 00:00 Tools
When Your Lover Has Gone 00:00 Tools
April In Paris - 1995 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Modern Fantasy 00:00 Tools
Low Flame 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 00:00 Tools
Pardon Me Pretty Baby (Live) 00:00 Tools
Samba de uma Nota Só (One Note Samba) 00:00 Tools
You're Blasé 00:00 Tools
You Can't Take That Away from Me 00:00 Tools
Stalking 00:00 Tools
Crazy Rhythm (live) 00:00 Tools
It's Getting Dark 00:00 Tools
I'll String Along With You 00:00 Tools
Stardust (Live) 00:00 Tools
Carioca (Kahn/Eliscu/Youmans) 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew (2001 Remastered - Take 2 Alt.) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (p. 67) 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Original Dixieland One Step 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue (Remastered - 2001 - Take 3) 00:00 Tools
Dinner for One Please, James 00:00 Tools
He's Funny That Way 00:00 Tools
Spellbound (David/Rozsa) 00:00 Tools
The Essence Of You (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
The Ricitic 00:00 Tools
My Melancholy Baby (Live) 00:00 Tools
I'll Tell You Later 00:00 Tools
Unlisted Blues 00:00 Tools
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (Live) 00:00 Tools
Swinging In the Groove (Live) 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul 00:00 Tools
Lost In A Fog (Fields/McHugh) 00:00 Tools
Clo's Blues 00:00 Tools
Here's That Rainy Day 00:00 Tools
Linger Awhile 00:00 Tools
Think Deep (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Hawk Talk 00:00 Tools
It's a Wonderful World 00:00 Tools
Gee, Ain't I Good To You 00:00 Tools
Cross Town 00:00 Tools
Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day 00:00 Tools
Love Me Or Leave Me 00:00 Tools
Dear Old Southland (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hello Babe 00:00 Tools
Down Georgia Way 00:00 Tools
Poor Richard 00:00 Tools
Dee Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover [Jazz Samba] 00:00 Tools
Hassle 00:00 Tools
The Darktown Strutter's Ball (Live) 00:00 Tools
Midnight Sun (Burke/Hampton) 00:00 Tools
Blue Lou 00:00 Tools
I'm Shooting High 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down Home 00:00 Tools
Sugar (That Sugar Baby O'Mine) 00:00 Tools
I Won't Dance 00:00 Tools
Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?) 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
I Know That You Know (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Rabbit In Jazz 00:00 Tools
Woodyn You 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started (Gershwin/Duke) 00:00 Tools
Last Stop 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate 00:00 Tools
All of Me 00:00 Tools
Sweet Adeline 00:00 Tools
Climb Every Mountain 00:00 Tools
Woody'n You - 2000 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
You Rascal, You 00:00 Tools
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - Live (1957/Newport) 00:00 Tools
Sportsman's Hop 00:00 Tools
Dinner For One Please, James (2001 Remastered - Take 2 Alt.) 00:00 Tools
Hawkins Barrelhouse 00:00 Tools
Close Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Ready for Love 00:00 Tools
When Budda Smiles (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Darktown Strutters' Ball 00:00 Tools
Ol' Man River 00:00 Tools
It's Only A Papermoon (Arlen/Rose/Harburg) 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Shuffle 00:00 Tools
When Lights Are Low 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Spring's Swing 00:00 Tools
Cool Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul (1996 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Ruby (Parish/Roemheld) 00:00 Tools
Cloudy Skies 00:00 Tools
Well, All Right Then 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters Ball 00:00 Tools
You Were Meant For Me 00:00 Tools
Blues for Yolande -stereo 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew (2001 Remastered - Take 5) 00:00 Tools
39"-25"-39" 00:00 Tools
Running Wild 00:00 Tools
Pardon Me, Pretty Baby 00:00 Tools
Cheek to Cheek 00:00 Tools
Cry Like the Wind 00:00 Tools
Bouncing With Bean (1996 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Night Ramble 00:00 Tools
The Day You Came Along (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
Like Someone In Love (Stereo Master Take) 00:00 Tools
Donegal Cradle Song 00:00 Tools
SIN (IT'S NO) 00:00 Tools
Phoenix 00:00 Tools
Like Someone In Love (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Chant of the Groove 00:00 Tools
Avalon (from Sweet And Lowdown) {with Michel Warlon’s Orchestra} 00:00 Tools
Boff Boff 00:00 Tools
Where Is Your Heart? (Auric/Engvick) 00:00 Tools
I'm Fer It Too 00:00 Tools
I'm Shooting High (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
Sih-Sih (Moody/Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Bah-U-Bah (Dameron/Hawkins) 00:00 Tools
Bean's Talking Again (Hawkins/Clarke) 00:00 Tools
I'd Love It 00:00 Tools
I'll Follow My Secret Heart 00:00 Tools
Samba De Uma Nota So (One Note Samba) 00:00 Tools
Cool Blue 00:00 Tools
Thru' For The Night 00:00 Tools
Ooh-wee, Miss G.P. 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckly Rose 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy (live) 00:00 Tools
When Day Is Done (1996 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Ladies Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Ooh-wee, Miss GP! 00:00 Tools
JUMPIN' JANE 00:00 Tools
Someday, Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Love Song from 'Apache' 00:00 Tools
For You, For Me, For Evermore - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The One I Love (Belongs To Someone Else) 00:00 Tools
More Bounce To The Vonce 00:00 Tools
Lucky Duck 00:00 Tools
Mon Homme (My Man) 00:00 Tools
Stormy Weather 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue - Remastered - 2001 - Take 3 00:00 Tools
When a Congressman Meets a Senator Down South 00:00 Tools
I Want To Be Happy 00:00 Tools
Wherever There's A Will, There's A Way (My Baby) 00:00 Tools
I May Be Wrong 00:00 Tools
Well, Allright Then 00:00 Tools
I've Got the World on a String 00:00 Tools
Things Ain't What They Used To Be 00:00 Tools
I Believe in You 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew (That Roses Grew) 00:00 Tools
Flamethrower 00:00 Tools
Fantanique 00:00 Tools
Half Step Down 00:00 Tools
I'll Get By 00:00 Tools
So Glad 00:00 Tools
Miss Hannah 00:00 Tools
Half Step Down, Please - 1995 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Under a Blanket of Blue (10-12-44) 00:00 Tools
Out of My Dreams 00:00 Tools
Indiana 00:00 Tools
Where is your Heart 00:00 Tools
I Can't Believe That You're In Love 00:00 Tools
Bean Bags: Stuffy 00:00 Tools
Look Out Jack! 00:00 Tools
Happy Feet 00:00 Tools
How Long, How Long Blues 00:00 Tools
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody 00:00 Tools
All the Time 00:00 Tools
Easy Walker 00:00 Tools
Clo's Blues - BOF "Les Tricheurs" 00:00 Tools
Ballade 00:00 Tools
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To 00:00 Tools
Blue Blue Days 00:00 Tools
Some Stretching 00:00 Tools
Years Ago 00:00 Tools
Loads of Love 00:00 Tools
Angel Face - 2004 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Pebble 00:00 Tools
I Knew Dana 00:00 Tools
I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me 00:00 Tools
Blues for Yolande -monaural 00:00 Tools
Asleep in the Deep 00:00 Tools
MIDNIGHT SUN WILL NEVER SET 00:00 Tools
Lonely Tenor 00:00 Tools
Sweet sorrow blues 00:00 Tools
Dinner For One Please, James - 2001 Remastered - Take 3 00:00 Tools
Crosstown 00:00 Tools
Blues for Yolande -takes 00:00 Tools
Vic's Spot 00:00 Tools
While We're Young - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
At Dawning - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover (Edit) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (10-11-39) 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud 00:00 Tools
When Day Is Gone 00:00 Tools
The Beat 00:00 Tools
South 00:00 Tools
Fine And Dandy 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba (Samba De Uma N 00:00 Tools
Pebbles 00:00 Tools
Ow! 00:00 Tools
La Mer (Beyond the Sea) 00:00 Tools
Running Home 00:00 Tools
Have I Told You Lately? 00:00 Tools
Boff Boff (Mop Mop) 00:00 Tools
The Sweetest Sounds (from No Strings) 00:00 Tools
Mighty Like A Rose - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Ain't Cha Glad? 00:00 Tools
Misty Morning 00:00 Tools
Easy Rider 00:00 Tools
The Bean Stalks Again - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Georgia Jubilee 00:00 Tools
Take the "a" Train 00:00 Tools
Mop Mop 00:00 Tools
Soft Winds 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
All The Cats Join In 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew - 2001 Remastered - Take 5 00:00 Tools
The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else) 00:00 Tools
DESAFINAD 00:00 Tools
Um Abraco No Bonfa 00:00 Tools
Cattlin' at Keynote 00:00 Tools
Peggy 00:00 Tools
April in Paris (feat. Fats Navarro, Jay Jay Johnson) 00:00 Tools
The Day You Came Along - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones - Remastered - 2001 - Take 7 00:00 Tools
Stranger in Paradise 00:00 Tools
Spotlight 00:00 Tools
Skippy 00:00 Tools
Sensation 00:00 Tools
Chien Perdu Sans Collier 00:00 Tools
Pick Up Boys 00:00 Tools
Say It Isn't So - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
My Ideal - 2000 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Riding On 52nd Street (New York, July 27, 1944) 00:00 Tools
Blues For Yolande [preliminary takes] 00:00 Tools
Wouldn't It Be Loverly 00:00 Tools
01 - Rifftide - Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins 00:00 Tools
Blow Me Down 00:00 Tools
Frankie and Johnny 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul - Live (1949/Carnegie Hall) 00:00 Tools
Budd Johnson 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue 00:00 Tools
When The Saints Go Marchin' In 00:00 Tools
Goodbye Blues 00:00 Tools
I've Got the World On a String - 1995 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Love for Sale 00:00 Tools
It's No Sin 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Put On Your Old Grey Bonnett 00:00 Tools
Lazy Butterfly 00:00 Tools
Daybreak in Dinant 00:00 Tools
When Lights Are Low (1995 Remastered - Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Lester Leaps In 00:00 Tools
02 - The Man I Love - Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins 00:00 Tools
Un Abraco No Bonfa (An Embrac 00:00 Tools
Dinah - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Whisper to Me 00:00 Tools
Loverman / Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
Indiana (Back Home Again In) (live) 00:00 Tools
Out of Nowhere (From "Deconstructing Harry") 00:00 Tools
Mon Homme - My Man 00:00 Tools
When Day Is Done (New York, January 3, 1940) 00:00 Tools
Platinum Love 00:00 Tools
Mon Homme 00:00 Tools
Coleman Hawkins 00:00 Tools
Dixieland Stomp 00:00 Tools
Save It, Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
Sugar Foot Stomp - 1995 Remastered - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Emaline 00:00 Tools
Un Abraco No Bonfa [An Embrace to Bonfa] 00:00 Tools
One Hour (New York, November 14, 1929) 00:00 Tools
I'm Shooting High - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Sandra's Blues 00:00 Tools
His Very Own Blues - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Shake It and Break It 00:00 Tools
Maryland, My Maryland 00:00 Tools
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) 00:00 Tools
That's How I Feel Today 00:00 Tools
Buckin' The Blues 00:00 Tools
Tu n'peux Pas t'figurer 00:00 Tools
Indiana (Back Home Again in) 00:00 Tools
Lover, Come Back To Me 00:00 Tools
The Shiek of Araby 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands - Live (1957/Chicago) 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota Só) 00:00 Tools
One Note Samba (Samba De Una Nota So) 00:00 Tools
What Harlem Means To Me 00:00 Tools
Night & Day 00:00 Tools
Air In D Flat 00:00 Tools
The Essence Of You - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Ol' Pappy 00:00 Tools
Plain Dirt 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (2004 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Swinging Scotch 00:00 Tools
New king porter stomp 00:00 Tools
I'll Wind 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) 00:00 Tools
Bean And The Boys (Issued as "39-25-39") - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Montono Blues 00:00 Tools
Six Or Seven Times 00:00 Tools
Dynaflow 00:00 Tools
A Tune for the Tutor 00:00 Tools
Honey Suckle Rose 00:00 Tools
Bean And The Boys - Take 1 00:00 Tools
Buggle Call Rag 00:00 Tools
Nat Meet June 00:00 Tools
Scratch My Back 00:00 Tools
Samba De Uma Nota So 00:00 Tools
Got Another Sweetie 00:00 Tools
Les tricheurs 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue - Just You 00:00 Tools
Don't Take Your Love from Me (Remastered 2015) 00:00 Tools
Blues For Yolande (Stereo Mix) 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Heart break blues 00:00 Tools
04 - Love For Sale - Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins 00:00 Tools
05 - Caravan - Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel Today 00:00 Tools
Watermelon Man 00:00 Tools
Firebird 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew - 2001 Remastered - Take 2 Alt. 00:00 Tools
Ooh-Wee, Miss Gee Pee 00:00 Tools
Traumerei 00:00 Tools
Shadows (feat. Thad Jones) 00:00 Tools
It's Tight Like That 00:00 Tools
S Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Then I'll Be Tired Of You (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
When Lights Are Low - 1995 Remastered - Take 1 00:00 Tools
I Cross My Fingers 00:00 Tools
Dali 00:00 Tools
Avalon - . 00:00 Tools
I'm Thru With Love 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Go To Harlem 00:00 Tools
Father Cooperates 00:00 Tools
Love Come Back To Me 00:00 Tools
Self Portrait 00:00 Tools
03 - Body And Soul - Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown (From "Crimes and Misdemeanors") 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is the Ocean - 2000 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Never In A Million Years 00:00 Tools
Don't Worry 'bout Me 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag (Zurich, May 4, 1936) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Love You Any More Than I Do 00:00 Tools
Harmony in Harlem 00:00 Tools
Lullaby (London, November 18, 1934) 00:00 Tools
How Did She Look? 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue - Remastered - 2001 - Alternate Take 1 00:00 Tools
Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey 00:00 Tools
Dinner For One Please, James - 2001 Remastered - Take 2 Alt. 00:00 Tools
06 - Love Come Back To Me - Body And Soul - Coleman Hawkins 00:00 Tools
I Can't Love You Any More 00:00 Tools
Hawk's Variations, Part 2 00:00 Tools
I Wished On The Moon (Stereo Version) 00:00 Tools
Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind 00:00 Tools
Um Abraço No Bonfá (An Embrace To Bonfá) 00:00 Tools
Lady Be Good (London, November 18, 1934) 00:00 Tools
Just a Riff 00:00 Tools
Platinum Love (Master Take) 00:00 Tools
Bean's Talking Again (Paris, December 21, 1949) 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know - Rudy Van Gelder Remaster 00:00 Tools
Pom Pom 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep for Me 00:00 Tools
I Only Have Eyes For You (The Hague, February 4, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Some Of These Days (The Hague, February 4, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Lost In A Fog (London, November 18, 1934) 00:00 Tools
My Blue Heaven - 1995 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Skippy (master take) 00:00 Tools
Recollection 00:00 Tools
For Bass Faces Only 00:00 Tools
The Darktown Strutters Ball 00:00 Tools
Original Dixieland One Steo 00:00 Tools
My Man (Mon Homme) 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose (Paris, April 28, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Blue Moon (Paris, March 2, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Smiles (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, April 27, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Crazy Rhythm (Paris, April 28, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Riviera Blues 00:00 Tools
Dee Tees 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love - 2000 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Nat Meets June 00:00 Tools
Consolation (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, April 27, 1937) 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Go Back To Harlem (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, April 27, 1937) 00:00 Tools
For You, for Me Forevermore 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose (London, November 18, 1934) 00:00 Tools
Avalon (Paris, March 2, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady (Paris, December 21, 1949) 00:00 Tools
What A Difference A Day Made (Paris, March 2, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul - 01 - Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Hands Across The Table (The Hague, February 4, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Dinah (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones - Remastered - 2001 - Alternate Take 1 00:00 Tools
Sin 00:00 Tools
How Come You Do Me Like You Do 00:00 Tools
Not Quite Night 00:00 Tools
Blues For Yolanda 00:00 Tools
Home 00:00 Tools
Skronk 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone (The Hague, February 4, 1935) 00:00 Tools
The Father Co-operates 00:00 Tools
Original Dixieland One Step (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, April 27, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Woodyn' You 00:00 Tools
It May Not Be True (Zurich, May 4, 1936) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Geogia Brown 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Were Twins (The Hague, February 4, 1935) 00:00 Tools
A Strange Fact (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, April 27, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Netcha's Dream (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, August 26, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Blues For Yolande [stereo] 00:00 Tools
Hawk's Variations, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Junk Man 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind 00:00 Tools
It's Only A Paper Moon (Paris, December 21, 1949) 00:00 Tools
Back Talk 00:00 Tools
Ready for Freddie 00:00 Tools
Blues For Yolande [mono] 00:00 Tools
Something Is Gonna Give Me Away (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, April 27, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Clo's Blues - From 'Les tricheurs' 00:00 Tools
Chicago (1929) 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) 00:00 Tools
Squeeze Me 00:00 Tools
Everyman for Himself 00:00 Tools
Oh Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
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Ain't Cha Glad 00:00 Tools
Lady Butterfly 00:00 Tools
Stardust (Paris, March 2, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Meditation (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, August 26, 1935) 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) 00:00 Tools
Tu N' Peux T' Figurer (Dawn Over Paris) 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Blues Evermore (Hilversum, June 14, 1938) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul - Live (1945/Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles) 00:00 Tools
My Blue Heaven (1995 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Meet Doctor Foo (10-11-39) 00:00 Tools
Very Saxy 00:00 Tools
Save It Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutter's Ball 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul (1995 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Time After Time 00:00 Tools
Giorgia on my mind 00:00 Tools
At Downing 00:00 Tools
Sportman's Hop 00:00 Tools
Chicago (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, August 26, 1935) 00:00 Tools
You've Got Me Crying Again 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (New York, October 11, 1939) 00:00 Tools
'way Down Yonder In New Orleans (Hilversum, June 14, 1938) 00:00 Tools
The Way We Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
When A Congressman Meets A Senator 00:00 Tools
Leave My Love Alone 00:00 Tools
His Very Own Blues (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
Wouldn't It Be Loverly? 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown (Paris, April 28, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Devotion (Hilversum, May 26, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Lamentation (Hilversum, May 26, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Just You Just Me 00:00 Tools
Out Of Nowhere (Paris, April 28, 1937) 00:00 Tools
It´s a wonderful Word 00:00 Tools
How Come You Do Me Like You Do? 00:00 Tools
Hush My Mouth 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started (New York, July 30, 1952) 00:00 Tools
Bah - U - Bah (Paris, December 21, 1949) 00:00 Tools
Rose Room 00:00 Tools
The Nearness of You 00:00 Tools
Talk Of The Town 00:00 Tools
'39 - '25 - '39 00:00 Tools
The House of David Blues 00:00 Tools
Ooh-Wee Miss G.P.! 00:00 Tools
Not Quite Right 00:00 Tools
For You, For Me, For Evermore (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul - 02 - How Deep Is The Ocean 00:00 Tools
Star Dust (Hilversum, August 18, 1937) 00:00 Tools
Love Song/Apache 00:00 Tools
The Darktown Strutter's Ball (London, May 26, 1939) 00:00 Tools
I Know That You Know (Hilversum, June 14, 1938) 00:00 Tools
When Buddah Smiles (Hilversum, June 14, 1938) 00:00 Tools
I Only Have Eyes for You (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
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Perdido (New York, mid 1950) 00:00 Tools
I Surrender Dear (Paris, December 21, 1949) 00:00 Tools
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Hollywood Stampede (Los Angeles, February 23, 1945) 00:00 Tools
Might Like The Blues 00:00 Tools
My Blue Heaven (1996 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
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Um Abraco No Bonfa (An Embrace To Bonfa) 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Good Life 00:00 Tools
What Harlem Is To Me (Casino Hamdorff, Laren, August 26, 1935) 00:00 Tools
Stardust (Los Angeles, February 23, 1945) 00:00 Tools
Crazy Rhythm - Original 00:00 Tools
Man I Love 00:00 Tools
Well, All Right Then (Hilversum, August 18, 1937) 00:00 Tools
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Midnight Sun (New York, February 26, 1952) 00:00 Tools
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Mop De Mop Mop 00:00 Tools
I Love Paris (1995 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Love You Anymore 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me (Los Angeles, March 9, 1945) 00:00 Tools
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The Bottle's Empty 00:00 Tools
I'll Get By (As I Long As I Have You) 00:00 Tools
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home 00:00 Tools
Pardon Me Pretty Baby 00:00 Tools
The Midnight Sun Will Never Set 00:00 Tools
Song From 'Moulin Rouge' (Where Is Your Heart?) 00:00 Tools
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There Will Never Be Another You (1995 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
De-Dar 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' For Jane (New York, December 11, 1947) 00:00 Tools
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It's Tight Like That (12-14-39) 00:00 Tools
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Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed Hawk and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. While Hawkins is strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s. Fellow saxophonist Lester Young, known as "Pres", commented in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review: "As far as I'm concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the President first, right? As far as myself, I think I'm the second one." Miles Davis once said: "When I heard Hawk, I learned to play ballads." One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". Hawkins was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1904. Although some sources say 1901, there is no evidence to prove an earlier date; instead, there is record of Hawkins's parents' first child, a girl, being born in 1901 and dying at the age of two, possibly basis for the mistaken belief. He was named Coleman after his mother Cordelia's maiden name. He attended high school in Chicago, then in Topeka, Kansas at Topeka High School. He later stated that he studied harmony and composition for two years at Washburn College in Topeka while still attending high school. In his youth he played piano and cello, and started playing saxophone at the age of nine; by the age of fourteen he was playing around eastern Kansas. Hawkins's first major gig was with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds in 1921, and he was with the band full time from April 1922 to 1923, when he settled in New York City. In the Jazz Hounds, he coincided with Garvin Bushell, Everett Robbins, Bubber Miley and Herb Flemming, among others. Hawkins joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, where he remained until 1934, sometimes doubling on clarinet and bass saxophone. Hawkins's playing changed significantly during Louis Armstrong's tenure with the Henderson Orchestra (1924–25). In the late 1920s, Hawkins also participated in some of the earliest interracial recording sessions with the Mound City Blue Blowers. During his time with Henderson, he became a star soloist with an increasing amount of solos space on records. While with the band, he and Henry "Red" Allen recorded a series of small group sides for ARC (on their Perfect, Melotone, Romeo, and Oriole labels). Hawkins also recorded a number of solo recordings, with either piano or with a pick-up band of Henderson's musicians in 1933–34, just prior to his period in Europe. He was also featured on a Benny Goodman session on February 2, 1934 for Columbia, which also featured Mildred Bailey as guest vocalist. In late 1934, Hawkins accepted an invitation to play with Jack Hylton's orchestra in London, and toured Europe as a soloist until 1939, performing and recording with Django Reinhardt and Benny Carter in Paris in 1937. Following his return to the United States, on October 11, 1939, he recorded a two-chorus performance of the pop standard "Body and Soul", which he had been performing at Bert Kelly's New York venue, Kelly's Stables. In a landmark recording of the swing era, recorded as an afterthought at the session, Hawkins ignores almost all of the melody, with only the first four bars stated in a recognizable fashion. In its exploration of harmonic structure it is considered by many to be the next evolutionary step in jazz recording after Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues" in 1928. After an unsuccessful attempt to establish a big band, he led a combo at Kelly's Stables on Manhattan's 52nd Street with Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Miles Davis, and Max Roach as sidemen. Hawkins always had a keen ear for new talent and styles, and he was the leader on what is generally considered to have been the first ever bebop recording session in 1944 with Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach. Later he toured with Howard McGhee and recorded with J. J. Johnson and Fats Navarro. He also toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic. After 1948 Hawkins divided his time between New York and Europe, making numerous freelance recordings. In 1948 Hawkins recorded "Picasso", an early piece for unaccompanied saxophone. Hawkins directly influenced many bebop performers, and later in his career, recorded or performed with such adventurous musicians as Sonny Rollins, who considered him as his main influence, and John Coltrane. He appears on the Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Jazzland/Riverside) record. In 1960 he recorded on Max Roach's We Insist! suite. In the 1950s, Hawkins performed with more traditional musicians such as Henry "Red" Allen and Roy Eldridge with whom he appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and recorded Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Ben Webster along with Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), and Alvin Stoller (drums). In the 1960s, he appeared regularly at the Village Vanguard in Manhattan. Meanwhile, Hawkins had began to drink heavily and his recording output began to wane. However, he did manage to record some notable albums, including an album for the Impulse! label with Duke Ellington. His last recording was in 1967. With failing health, Hawkins succumbed to pneumonia in 1969 and is interred in the Yew Plot at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. The Song of the Hawk, a 1990 biography written by British jazz historian John Chilton, chronicles Hawkins's career as one of the most significant jazz performers of the 20th century. 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