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Modern day jazz artists comment on the contributions of Coleman Hawkins, the man who popularized the sax in jazz. Coleman's career spanned the big band and bebop eras.
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Modern day jazz artists comment on the contributions of Coleman Hawkins, the man who popularized the sax in jazz. Coleman's career spanned the big band and bebop eras.
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Eddie Hill
Posted on November 03, 2005 at 06:26 PM | Permalink
Review of Coleman Hawkins
As I am hearing this, including the live interviews you got to record. The "news-zine" style energy carries the work and the music closes the deal.
Nice shorts. I am seeing video clips, having gotten visual/video.