Coleman Hawkins - On Prestige (2024)

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Title: On Prestige
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc. FP
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 2:11:02
Total Size: 760 MB
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Tracklist:

1. I'm Beginning To See The Light (06:59)
2. Under A Blanket Of Blue (04:36)
3. The Red Garland Trio – Red Beans (04:15)
4. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (04:37)
5. Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Buddy Tate & Arnett Cobb – Very Saxy (Remastered 2007/Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (08:15)
6. Kenny Burrell – Tres Palabras (feat. Coleman Hawkins) [Rudy Van Gelder Remaster 2008] (06:43)
7. Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Tommy Flanagan – In A Mellow Tone (06:49)
8. Then I'll Be Tired Of You (Instrumental) (05:10)
9. Just A Gigolo (05:04)
10. There Is No Greater Love (08:15)
11. Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Buddy Tate & Arnett Cobb – Lester Leaps In (Remastered 2007/Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (06:12)
12. Moonglow (05:56)
13. The Red Garland Trio – I Want To Be Loved (05:58)
14. For You, For Me, For Evermore (Instrumental) (06:10)
15. Kenny Burrell – I Thought About You (feat. Coleman Hawkins) [Rudy Van Gelder Remaster 2008] (04:37)
16. The Sweetest Sounds (04:21)
17. Greensleeves (03:16)
18. Thelonious Monk – Flyin' Hawk (02:47)
19. Soul Blues (09:56)
20. Cocktails For Two (03:04)
21. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) (06:38)
22. Tommy Flanagan – Make Someone Happy (03:07)
23. Trouble Is A Man (Instrumental) (05:28)
24. Bean And The Boys (Take 1) (02:38)

Coleman Hawkins was the first important tenor saxophonist and he remains one of the greatest of all time. A consistently modern improviser whose knowledge of chords and harmonies was encyclopedic, Hawkins had a 40-year prime (1925-1965) during which he could hold his own with any competitor.

Coleman Hawkins started piano lessons when he was five, switched to cello at age seven, and two years later began on tenor. At a time when the saxophone was considered a novelty instrument, used in vaudeville and as a poor substitute for the trombone in marching bands, Hawkins sought to develop his own sound. A professional when he was 12, Hawkins was playing in a Kansas City theater pit band in 1921, when Mamie Smith hired him to play with her Jazz Hounds. Hawkins was with the blues singer until June 1923, making many records in a background role and he was occasionally heard on instrumentals. After leaving Smith, he freelanced around New York, played briefly with Wilbur Sweatman, and in August 1923 made his first recordings with Fletcher Henderson. When Henderson formed a permanent orchestra in January 1924, Hawkins was his star tenor.