Full Version: Coleman Hawkins centenary this Sunday
Did I miss a thread anywhere? My apologies if so... but tomorrow (Sunday, Nov. 21) will be the 100th anniversary of Coleman Hawkins' birth. Hats off to the Hawk! Long may his music continue to fly. I'm devoting tonight's Night Lights program to his early-1960s recordings, and I'm sure there will be radio tributes on jazz stations around the country this weekend as well. Tomorrow I'll be dusting off the Keynotes and some other classic Bean in celebration of his life and work.
Follow this link to my Hawkins playlist. I featured five hours of Bean on my show Friday night:
http://www.wgbh.org/playlists/playlist?pro...list_id=1809801
http://www.wgbh.org/playlists/playlist?pro...list_id=1809801
| QUOTE (stevebop @ Nov 20 2004, 11:30 PM) |
| Follow this link to my Hawkins playlist. I featured five hours of Bean on my show Friday night: http://www.wgbh.org/playlists/playlist?pro...list_id=1809801 |
Looks like it was a great show, Steve! I love "Straight Ahead" but had to drop it to fit everything into one hour... I envy you your five-hour time slot! Your playlist does great justice to Hawk--even at five hours, I'll bet that was a challenge for an artist whose career lasted so long and spanned so many stylistic changes in jazz.
Up for Bean's 100th.
Trivia question: in the Tom Hanks movie ROAD TO PERDITION, what song is playing in the background when Jude Law confronts Hanks in a roadside diner?
Trivia question: in the Tom Hanks movie ROAD TO PERDITION, what song is playing in the background when Jude Law confronts Hanks in a roadside diner?
Tipped off by another's post in "What are you listening to?", I can report that WKCR is doing an all-day tribute to Hawkins right now.
hapy 100 bday coleman hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a nice, fairly detailed piece about Hawkins on Scott Simon's Saturday AM show on NPR this week. Not only did I enjoy the piece, but they played a later ballad performance from one of his Impulse! recordings that I am now going to track down, beautiful.
Haven't been here all day, but I was counting on finding this thread here when I did manage to make it. Thanks! 
Alyn Shipton is doing an excellent three part series on Hawk on BBC Radio 3 at 1800 on Saturdays, final instalment next Saturday. Not sure if it's available over the net though
try hereBBC jazz page
try hereBBC jazz page
| QUOTE (DrJ @ Nov 21 2004, 04:06 PM) |
| Not only did I enjoy the piece, but they played a later ballad performance from one of his Impulse! recordings that I am now going to track down, beautiful. |
Could the album have been Today and Now? That one's chalk full of some sensuous ballads. One of my favorite later period Bean recordings.
Happy 100 to one of the classiest of them all:
Here is a picture of Bean's Otto Link, and another one.
In addition to all that talent, he sure was one dapper guy.
Listening to the Phil Schapp.... er, I mean Coleman Hawkins celebration on WKCR. Gad, I love the web!
Always loved it when he & Ben Webster got together!
Always loved it when he & Ben Webster got together!
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| Late Posted: Nov 22 2004, 01:14 PM QUOTE (DrJ @ Nov 21 2004, 04:06 PM) Not only did I enjoy the piece, but they played a later ballad performance from one of his Impulse! recordings that I am now going to track down, beautiful. Could the album have been Today and Now? That one's chalk full of some sensuous ballads. One of my favorite later period Bean recordings. |
Yep, it was from that CD which has rocketed to the top of my "must purchase" list based on the tune I heard ("Love Song from 'Apache'") as well as your comments Late!
Drool...
No kidding. Great looking mouthpiece. Did Bean have his own series (per the other pic)?
Tony, I think you'll like that Impulse! title. I have the Japanese pressing, and the sound is very nice. Here's the American pressing. (Couldn't find the Japanese one online.)
Now that I've revisited it, it's probably not "chalk full" of ballads, but that ballad is a highlight of the disc. The other tracks are equally as nice (with perhaps the exception of the "Scottish" tune).
Tony, I think you'll like that Impulse! title. I have the Japanese pressing, and the sound is very nice. Here's the American pressing. (Couldn't find the Japanese one online.)
Now that I've revisited it, it's probably not "chalk full" of ballads, but that ballad is a highlight of the disc. The other tracks are equally as nice (with perhaps the exception of the "Scottish" tune).
| QUOTE (DrJ @ Nov 22 2004, 06:16 PM) | ||
Yep, it was from that CD which has rocketed to the top of my "must purchase" list based on the tune I heard ("Love Song from 'Apache'") as well as your comments Late! |
That is indeed a good 'un--I played only one track apiece from the albums I chose for the Night Lights program, and "Apache" was the one I seized upon from TODAY. It was written by David Raksin of "Laura" fame, and I believe Hawk's interpretation was the first-ever jazz version (the movie came out in 1954).
| QUOTE (ghost of miles @ Nov 21 2004, 01:21 PM) |
| Up for Bean's 100th. Trivia question: in the Tom Hanks movie ROAD TO PERDITION, what song is playing in the background when Jude Law confronts Hanks in a roadside diner? |
All right, all right, you all can just stop now with the relentless PMs, the ceaseless posts, and the late-night hounding via telephone--the answer is "Queer Notions."
Happy birthday to the father of the modern jazz saxophone. He IS Body and Soul!
| QUOTE (DrJ @ Nov 22 2004, 06:16 PM) | ||
Yep, it was from that CD which has rocketed to the top of my "must purchase" list based on the tune I heard ("Love Song from 'Apache'") as well as your comments Late! |
Count me in this group "mad-to-death lovers" of Bean's interpretation "Love Song from 'Apache'".
First heard it on that Impulse album, and it took my body and soul, forever.
There is something magical about that track, don't know what.
Still, it is one of the greatiest moments in jazz-ballad interpretation, ever.
For Hawkins ballads in my collection I turn to Good Old Broadway(Prestige/Moodsville) on a very regular basis. Sublime!
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