Hawkins, Coleman (1904-1969)
The first jazzman to win fame as a tenor saxophonist, Coleman Hawkins joined Fletcher Henderson's band in 1923 and was already its star when young Louis Armstrong w...
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The American jazz musician Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969) transformed the tenor saxophone from a comic novelty into jazz's glamour instrument. He was one of the music's all-time preeminent instrumental v...
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Jazzman Andrew Hill, a groundbreaking pianist and composer known for his complex post-bop style, died early Friday, his record label announced. He was 75.Hill, who had been diagnosed with lung canc...
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By his 30th birthday, Max Roach was already considered the greatest jazz drummer ever by his peers. By the time he died this week, the 83-year-old master percussionist was known worldwide as much m...
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Two of the most innovative, virtuosic young jazz pianists—Jason Moran and Brad Mehldau—are playing back to back at Central Park’s SummerStage on Friday, Aug. 5, and the combinatio...
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Two of the most innovative, virtuosic young jazz pianists—Jason Moran and Brad Mehldau—are playing back to back at Central Park’s SummerStage on Friday, Aug. 5, and the combinatio...
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Sonny Rollins, the greatest living tenor-saxophone player, recorded some of his most thrilling—yet strangely neglected—music from 1962 to 1964, the brief era that’s captured on a ...
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Sonny Rollins, the greatest living tenor-saxophone player, recorded some of his most thrilling—yet strangely neglected—music from 1962 to 1964, the brief era that’s captured on a ...
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The photos of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and other musicians lining the walls of Sonny Rollins' cottage studio resemble a jazz hall of fame. But for the tenor saxophonist the pict...
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The J.V.C. Jazz Festival, which rolls through town every June, is an oddly redundant event (isn't New York City a nonstop jazz festival?), but it does offer a concentrated dose of all-star bands th...
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Hawkins, Coleman (1904-1969)
Coleman Hawkins
Jazz pianist-composer Andrew Hill dies
