Six Hawks for the New Year

There's no better way to celebrate the start of a new year than by listening to the hot-blooded sound of Coleman Hawkins and watching the tenor titan in action. I'm sure you've already seen the popular YouTube clip featuring Hawk and Charlie Parker and the one of Hawk and Billie Holiday in 1957 on CBS' The Sound of Jazz. But you may never have seen the six clips I unearthed below after conducting a bit of video research. Dig Hawk's assertive sound, dig the seamless ideas and, most of all, dig Hawk's style and cool. Wow! A hearty Happy New Year to JazzWax readers in the U.S. and across the globe!

Here's Hawk on Lover Man in 1961 with Barry Galbraith (guitar), Johnny Guarnieri (piano), Milt Hinton (bass) and Cozy Cole (drums)...

Here's Blues in G (Not South of France Blues, as listed). It was recorded in Brussels in 1961 with Mickey Baker (guitar), Georges Arvanitas (piano), Jimmy Woode (bass), and Kansas Fields (drums)...


Here's Hawk with a bedridden Ethel Waters from Goodnight Sweet Blues, a 1961 TV episode of Route 66 (thanks Joel Lewis!). Since trumpeter Roy Eldridge clearly is on drums and drummer Jo Jones is on trumpet, and Hawk is on clarinet (!), the music most certainly was dubbed...


Here's Hawk with Harry "Sweets" Edison in London in 1964 with Sir Charles Thompson (piano), Jimmy Woode (bass) and Jo Jones (drums)...


Here's Hawk in 1945 with Howard McGhee (trumpet), Sir Charles Thompson (piano), Oscar Pettiford (bass) and Denzil Best (drums) in a scene from the film The Crimson Canary. Dig Hawk marching in place with the beat when not playing...


Here's Hawk in Europe in 1967 playing Body and Soul...

Comments

[Don Tyler]

Can't beat the sound of Hawkins! Thanks for the research, Marc.

[ortega]

What a nice present! Thank you!
Happy new year from Barcelona!