Episode20 Jazz

1. Kenny Burrell – In a mellow tone, Fantasy
2. Gene Ammons – Scamperin’, Prestige
3. Earl Hines – There will be some changes made, Black and Blue
4. Don Wilkerson – Happy Johnny, Blue Note
5. Lionel Hampton – Blue boy, Iajrc
6. Coleman Hawkins – Sweet and lovely, Pablo
7. Hank Mobley – Cute ‘n pretty, Blue Note
8. Frank Rosolino – No greater love, Vantage Records
9. Art Blakey – Are you real, Fontana
10. McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Sonny Rollins and Al Foster – Alone together, Milestone
11. David Murray – Santa Barbara and Crenshaw Follies, Live volume 2, India Navigation
12. the Art Tatum Legacy – Can’t we be friends, Olympic Records

Episode19 Jazz

1. Ron Carter – Woolaphant, Milestone
2. Kenny Burrell – Rock salt, Blue Note
3. Jimmy Smith – Dancin on the ceiling, Guest Star Records
4. Sonny Rollins – Playing on the yard, Milestone
5. Andrew Hill – Morning flower, SleepleChase Records
6. Hank Mobley – Hanks’s other souL, Blue Note
7. Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster – Shine on the Harvest Moon, Verve
8. Lionel Hampton – At the Woodchoppers ball, Joker
9. Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra – Squatty roo, Verve
10. Thelonius Monk – Reflections, Prestige
11. Art Blakey – Dawn on the Desert, Roulette Records
12. Larry Young – Tyrone, Blue Note

Episode18 Jazz

1. Hank Mobley – the Flip, Blue Note
2. Art Pepper – More for les, Contemporary Records
3. the Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take five, Cbs
4. John Dennis – Seven Moons, Debut Records
5. Milt Buckner Trio – I only have eyes for you, Mps
6. Lionel Hampton – Flying home, Timeless
7. Coleman Hawkins – Sancticity, Riverside
8. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – the Theme, Blue Note
9. Sonny Rollins – the Most beautiful girl in the world, Prestige
10. Sonny Red – Blues in the pocket, Blue Note
11. Jimmy Smith – Off the top, Elektra Records
12. Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller – Your time is now, Music for Pleasure

Episode17 Jazz

1. the George Shearing Quintet – the Beb-bop Irishman, Capitol
2. Ben Webster – Jive at six, Metro
3. Cliff Jordan and John Gilmore – Billie’s bounce, Blue Note
4. Buck Clayton and Big Joe Turner – Honeysuckle rose, Fontana
5. Lionel Hampton – Hamp’s got the blues, Timeless Records
6. Horace Silver – Senor blues, Blue Note
7. Thelonious Monk – Epistrophy, Riverside
8. Coleman Hawkins / Roy Eldridge / Howard McGee – the Blue room, Ozone
9. Roland Kirk with Jack McDuff – Skaters waltz, Prestige
10. Cecil Taylor – Conquistador, Blue Note
11. Art Blakey Quartet – Blues back, Jasmine
12. Dizzy Gillespie – Here t’ is, Philips

Episode16 Jazz

1. Paul Bley / Charles Mingus / Art Blakey – Spontaneous combustion, Replica
2. Art Farmer & Benny Golson – Blues on down, Argo
3. Buddy Tate – Send for you yesterday, Black and blue
4. Lester Young, Roy Eldridge and Harry Edison – Romping, Verve
5. Sonny Sitt – Ain’t Missbehavin, Prestige
6. Lionel Hampton – Mezz and the Hamp, Barclay
7. Buddy Rich – Sonny and sweets, Verve
8. Coleman Hawkins – Centerpiece, Spotlite
9. Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants – Blues for Lester, Riverside
10. Dexter Gordon / Fats Navarro / Chubby Jackson – Lemon Drop, Xanadu
11. Charles Mingus – Original faubus fables, America
12. Hank Mobley – Message from the border, Prestige

Episode15 Jazz

1. Dexter Gordon – Junior, Affinity
2. Wayne Shorter – Pug nose, Vee Jay
3. Charles Mingus – Wednesday night prayer meeting, Peerless
4. Sonny Rollins -Bluenote, Blue Note
5. Tad Damerson with John Coltrane – Romas, Prestige
6. the Cedar Walton / Hank Mobley Quintet – Breakthrough, Muse Records
7. Coleman Hawkins  & the Trumpet Kings – Embraceable you, Emarcy Records
8. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra ft. Mahalia Jackson – Part 1 , Cbs
9. Art Tatum – Song of the vagabonds, Black Lion
10. Lester Young – Sweet Georgia brown, Musidisc
11. Benny Carter – In a mellow tone, Pablo
12. Oscar Peterson – Spinning wheel, Pablo

Episode14 Jazz

1. Kenny Burrell – Tin tin deo, Concord Jazz
2. the Barry Harris Trio with Ron Carter and Leroy Williams – Dexterity, Prestige
3. Hank Mobley with Kenny Clarke – Doug’s minor b’ok, Savoy
4. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – A night in Tunisia, Philips
5. Sidney Bechet – Achin’hearted blues, Cbs
6. Lionel Hampton with Dexter Gordon – Seven come eleven, Who’s who in Jazz
7. Jimmy Smith – Caravan, Blue Note
8. Coleman Hawkins – Ooga dOoga, Oriole Records
9. Charles Mingus – So long Eric, America
10. Ornette Coleman – Voice poetry, Artists house
11. Oscar Peterson – Wave, Mps
12. Wayne Shorter – Speak no evil, Jamey Aebersold

Episode13 Jazz

1. Erroll Garner – Easy to love, Fontana
2. Dizzy Gillespie – Mas que nada, Clave
3. Wynton Marsalis – Bitter dose, Kingdom Records
4. Coleman Hawkins & Bud Powell – Stuffy, Freedom Records
5. Jimmy Smith – Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Verve
6. Eric Dolphy Quartet – On green Dolphin street, Musidisc
7. Lionel Hampton – Honeysuckle rose, Black and blue
8. Benny Goodman his Trio & Quartet – Tiger rag, Quintessence Jazz Series
9. Hank Mobley – Double exposure, Blue Note
10. Ornette Coleman – Doughnut, Base record
11. Wayne Shorter – the Soothsayer, Blue Note
12. Kenny Burrell – Lost in the stars, Concord Jazz

Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins single-handedly brought the saxophone to the prominence in jazz that the instrument enjoys.  Before he hit the scene, jazz groups had little use for the instrument.  One player (forgot who) said, “with all due respect to Adolph Sax, Coleman Hawkins invented the saxophone.”   Hawkins, or “Bean”, as he was known as, started playing cello at a young age before switching to the saxophone.  He was a lifelong listener of classical music, and as a result, his knowledge of music theory was far ahead of his peers.   Whereas Louis Armstrong improvised his solos based on the melody, Hawkins based his on the harmony and had a strong sense of rhythm.

Hawkins hit New York at the age of 20 and quickly established himself, as he became the star of the Fletcher Henderson band.   His mature style (both fast and slow) emerged in 1929, and Hawkins has been credited by some to have invented the Jazz ballad.  He left Henderson’s band in 1934 and headed for Europe.  He returned in 1939 and recorded his commercial and artistic masterpiece Body and Soul, and established himself, once again, as one of the pre-eminent soloist.  The song features one of the greatest saxophone solos ever and is the standard by which all other jazz ballads are measured.

He fronted his own big band until 1941, and then went back to the New York clubs and the small group surroundings.  When bebop hit the scene in the early 40s, Hawkins was one of its early supporters and in 1944, he led the first bebop recording, featuring Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach.  Bebop upset many older musicians, but Hawkins was sympathetic because he understood it.  He hired young sidemen, such as Fats Navarro, Thelonious Monk, and Howard McGhee, which further identified him with the movement.  In the 1940s, he toured with Norman Granz’s “Jazz at the Philharmonic” concerts, all the way into 1967.  His music remained strong, as did his tone, which was also very strong and large.  A young tenor sax player complained once to another tenor player (in the 1950s, when Hawkins was around 50 years old) that playing next to Coleman Hawkins frightened him.  The other player responded with, “Coleman Hawkins is supposed to frighten you.”

Toward the end of his life, he neglected his health and drank much more.  This robbed him of his “wind”, and he couldn’t play the long, flowing solos that he had established earlier in his life, but he could still summon up the magic.  He died in 1969

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Records:

1. Coleman Hawkins – Just friends, Rca
2. Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge & Johnny Hodges – the Rabbit in jazz, Verve
3. Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young – The man i love, Musidisc
4. Coleman Hawkins – Exactly Like You, Pablo Records
5. Coleman Hawkins & Bud Powell – Stuffy, Freedom Records
6. Coleman Hawkins – Ooga dOoga, Oriole Records
7. Coleman Hawkins  & the Trumpet Kings – Embraceable you, Emarcy Records
8. Coleman Hawkins – Centerpiece, Spotlite
9. Coleman Hawkins / Roy Eldridge / Howard McGee – the Blue room, Ozone
10. Coleman Hawkins – Sancticity, Riverside
11. Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster – Shine on the Harvest Moon, Verve
12. Coleman Hawkins – Sweet and lovely, Pablo

Episode12 Jazz

1. Kenny Burrell & John Coltrame – Big Paul, Prestige
2. Thelonious Monk – ‘Round about midnight, Byg Records
3. Hank Mobley – Suite, Blue Note
4. the Oscar Peterson Trio – It’s all right with me, Verve
5. Jimmy Smith – Some of my best friends are blues, Metro
6. Sonny Rollins – Ee-ah, Prestige
7. Lionel Hampton – Hamp, Elite Special
8. Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge & Johnny Hodges – the Rabbit in jazz, Verve
9. Andrew Hill – From California with love, Artists house
10. Art Blakey & All Star Jazz Messengers – Moanin’, Eastworld
11. Erroll Garner – the Tease, Philps
12. Sammy Price – Royal garden blues, Musidisc