Library — Tenor Saxophone

Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins — Tenor Saxophone. Led Accent On Tenor, The Hawk Flies High, The Genius Of Coleman Hawkins. Worked with Wendell Marshall, Ray Brown, Osie Johnson.

Coleman Hawkins's leader album

Accent On Tenor
Coleman Hawkins · 1955
Sittin' In
Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Paul Gonsalves, Wynton Kelly, J.C. Heard, Wendell Marshall · 1958
The Genius Of Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins · 1958
The Original Bloody Mary Sings The Blues
Juanita Hall With Claude Hopkins All Stars · 1958

In 1958, the same year Coleman Hawkins cut his own showcase album The Genius of Coleman Hawkins, he also backed a blues record titled after the hit Broadway character from South Pacific — a founding father of jazz tenor sax turning up on session work far outside his usual world.

Coleman Hawkins's albums