Coleman Hawkins

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United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)

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A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years! Cannonball Adderley

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins. Gerry Mulligan

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos. Oscar Peterson

Coleman Hawkins told me never to play with someone older than me, and I never have. With older players, there's no force, no drive. With younger players, it's not that you know it all, or I know it all-it's I'm trying to learn it all. Miles Davis

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much. Stan Getz

The arrival of the saxophone as a jazz instrument is attributed to tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins ' stint with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra starting in 1923. Source: Internet

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