Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra

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Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra
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Studio album by Coleman Hawkins
Released 1960
Recorded 1960
Studio NYC
Genre Jazz
Label Crown
CLP-5181/CST-206
Producer Cannonball Adderley
Coleman Hawkins chronology
At Ease with Coleman Hawkins
(1960)		Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra
(1960)		 The Hawk Swings
(1960)

Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra is an album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins which was recorded in 1960 and released on the Crown label. [1] [2]

Coleman Hawkins American jazz saxophonist

Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. 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 biographer John Chilton described the prevalent styles of tenor saxophone solos prior to Hawkins as "mooing" and "rubbery belches." Hawkins cited as influences Happy Caldwell, Stump Evans, and Prince Robinson, although he was the first to tailor his method of improvisation to the saxophone rather than imitate the techniques of the clarinet. Hawkins' virtuosic, arpeggiated approach to improvisation, with his characteristic rich, emotional, loud, and vibrato-laden tonal style, was the main influence on a generation of tenor players that included Chu Berry, Charlie Barnet, Tex Beneke, Ben Webster, Vido Musso, Herschel Evans, Buddy Tate, and Don Byas, and through them the later tenormen, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ike Quebec, Al Sears, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. While Hawkins became well known with swing music during the big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.

Crown Records was a budget albums record label founded as a subsidiary of Modern Records. It has been the name of several different record labels, listed below.

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Track listing

All compositions by Coleman Hawkins

  1. "Bean in Orbit" – 6:08
  2. "After Midnight" – 4:51
  3. "Hassle" – 6:41
  4. "Moodsville" – 6:21
  5. "Stalking" – 9:20

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Thad Jones American jazz trumpeter

Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists."

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

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References

  1. ↑ Crown Album Discography, Part 2: CLP-5101/CST-133 to CLP-5199/CST-219 (1959–1961). Retrieved July 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Coleman Hawkins Discography. Retrieved July 12, 2017
  3. ↑ Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
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