Coleman Hawkins - Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Coleman Hawkins
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Artist: Coleman HawkinsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- The Stampede (with Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra)
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight (with The Mound City Blue Blowers)
- Queer Notions (with Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra)
- It's The Talk Of The Town (with Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra)
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Body and Soul
- The Man I Love
- Bean At The Met
- Woody 'n' You
- I Mean You
- Bean And The Boys
- Stuffy
- Picasso
- La Rosita
- Ruby, My Dear
- Just Friends
- Crazy Rhythm
- Driva Man
- Self Portrait Of The Bean
Music reviews of Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Coleman Hawkins
Music Review: The "Bean" Is In The House
Rating: 4 Stars
I admit to a very spotty interest in jazz over my life time and while I have always loved those 1940's swing bands, like that of Benny Goodman, it was only with the celebration of the centennial of Duke Ellington's birth in 1999 that I got a little more serious about this genre. Ken Burns' "Jazz" series for PBS gave me another boost. Still and all there are huge gaps in my knowledge and appreciation of the classic jazz tradition. This is a little odd in that there is a certain convergence between jazz and my favorite musical genre, the blues. The artist under review here exemplifies both those traditions, the "max daddy" tenor sax player Coleman Hawkins, who was the consummate professional and innovator on that instrument back in the days. All others, including the great Lester Young and Ben Webster, fall in behind this master. That much I do know.
A part of the Burns "Jazz" educational process a series of individual CDs featuring the classic works of the various artists featured in the documentaries were produced. Here the best of Hawkins, starting back in the 1920's, is given a full workout. The "best" here -no question- "Body And Soul", "I Mean You" and the later jumped up "Driva Man" (with the legendary Max Roach on drums). Wow.
Description of Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins had one of the longest creative careers in jazz, and this compilation, spanning every decade in which he recorded (and accompanying Ken Burns's 10-part documentary Jazz), emphasizes that his imagination was as enduring as his ruggedly bristling tenor saxophone sound. In the 1920s he was virtually the creator of jazz saxophone playing, freeing it from the mushy sound it had in dance bands. By the time "Bean" recorded his tune "Queer Notions" with Fletcher Henderson in 1933, he was already playing with elements of atonality in his music. 1939's "Body and Soul" is a breakthrough in the development of the jazz solo, a masterpiece of sustained harmonic invention.While many of his generation resisted the bebop revolution of the 1940s, Hawkins was a notable sponsor, among the first to hire its exponents and to record tunes like Dizzy Gillespie's "Woody 'n' You" and Thelonious Monk's "I Mean You." In the later years of his career, he played across a broad spectrum of jazz. There's a sublime meeting here with fellow swing tenor giant Ben Webster over a Latin beat on "La Rosita." Max Roach's "Driva Man" was one of the first works of explicit social protest in jazz. And Duke Ellington wrote the concluding "Self Portrait of the Bean" for Hawkins for a 1962 session in which they belatedly joined forces. --Stuart Broomer
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