Coleman Hawkins News

Today is Saturday, Nov. 21, the 325th day of 2009 with 40 to follow. The moon is waxing.

Imagine an unlikely marriage of a dignified and seemingly somber Latin Mass with somebody like tenor jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins playing free-wheeling riffs at the breaks.

Coleman Hawkins with Dizzy Gillespie in 1960: Man, whatchu looking at? My boss readily admits that she doesn't know a whole lot about jazz.

Author, photographer and radio host Dennis Owsley will teach another series of jazz history classes beginning at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 5 at the Ethical Society of St.

October 19, 2009 from WBGO - There are thousands of apple varieties - even a new conventional breed called " Jazz ." Much like the music which lends its name to this autumn delight, Jazz is a hybrid .

I had been curious about this disc for a while, since I read that this was the only Hawkins disc that had been rated "core collection" by the latest edition of the Penguin Guide to Jazz.

The idea of the tenor battle, two saxophonists squared off in mock combat against each other, has had a long tradition in jazz, be it Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, Dexter Gordon and Wardell Grey or Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane.

For some, the saxophone is the sound of jazz. The unique fusion of brass and woodwind that is the sax found an electrifying vibrato in the hands of jazzmen that truly changed the world.

The in-house gag about this show was that we were ready to work at the BRT simply because it never wanders off brasileira & exotica, albeit a few breathers of downtempo jazz from Cecil Taylor and Marc Copland.

Gary Giddins , whose Visions of Jazzwon the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1998, is perhaps best known for his longtime "Weather Bird" column for the Village Voice .

SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity This Sunday, September 27, join the Friends of Woodlawn for a walking tour of the final resting places of the Jazz Greats of Woodlawn Cemetery.

THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF MICHIGAN PRESENTS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009 at 5 PM A JAZZ MUSIC LECTURE BY CHRISTIAN GAUFFRE CLIFF BELLS JAZZ CLUB, DETROIT Christian Gauffre is a French journalist and jazz critic, he has written numerous biographies, including on singer Billie Holiday and saxophonist Charles Parker.

Every couple of weeks, we use this space to deliver a brief reminder of the existence of StLJN's sibling site Heliocentric Worlds .

On August 27, 1909, 100 years ago, Lester Young one of the true jazz giants, a tenor saxophonist, was born.

All About Jazz is celebrating Lester Young's birthday today! Lester Young Lester 'Prez" Young was one of the giants of the tenor saxophone.

Organ jazz records flow into and out of our consciousness evoking memories of the roots of jazz, R&B and easy listening, but also awakening us to the possibilities of new musical exploration.

We dig saxophone. It's the iconic jazz ax. Trumpets once reigned, a long time ago, and clarinets had their sweet little run too.

In the '20s, Coleman Hawkins established the tenor sax as a prominent soloing option in jazz, creating the first template for the dominant sound of the instrument.

FOR more than 50 years it has helped talented musicians on their route to stardom.

This article was published on 05.31.01 . Credited as one of the founders of modern jazz in the '40s, Monk had to wait for years before the public finally caught up to him.