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Earl “Fatha” Hines was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania on December 28, 1903. His father played the cornet and his mother was a church organist. Hines wanted to play the cornet like his father, but blowing into the instrument gave him a pain behind the ears, so he started playing the piano. He was classically trained, [...]

Born on September 9, 1927, Elvin Jones was the youngest of 10 children. He grew up in Pontiac, Michigan in a musical family. His brothers Thad and Hank are also well know jazz musicians. Even from an early age, Jones was fascinated by the drums. He enjoyed watching marching bands in parades and paid [...]

Born in 1904, Coleman Hawkins started out playing the piano and cello. He started playing tenor saxophone at 9 and was playing at school dances when he was 12. That means he was doing gigs in 1916. That’s a long time ago. (Leave it to me to be blown away by the obvious.)
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I don’t what the relationship between Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins was but I would say from looking at the body language in this video that they didn’t like each other. Maybe they had a little bit of a disagreement before this was shot.