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Date of Birth
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21-November-1904
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Place of Birth
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St. Joseph
(United States of America, Minnesota, Stearns County)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Coleman Randolph Hawkins, Coleman Hawkings, C . Hawkins, Hawkins, Coleman, Hawk, Bean
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Profession
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Musician, Actor, Saxophonist
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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". While Hawkins is strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.
Fellow saxophonist Lester Young, known as "Pres", commented in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review: "As far as I'm concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the President first, right? As far as myself, I think I'm the second one." Miles Davis once said: "When I heard Hawk, I learned to play ballads."
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