Coleman Hawkins “Stoned”
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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Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker
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.
