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Coleman Hawkins

BAND RANKINGS:

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All Time

of 150,009

839
Decades
- 1920s
  
  of 19
  
  1
- 1930s
  
  of 20
  
  0
- 1940s
  
  of 38
  
  12
- 1950s
  
  of 170
  
  166
- 1960s
  
  of 431
  
  280
- 1980s
  
  of 1,418
  
  569
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  0
- 2000s
  
  of 10,563
  
  9,080
Genres
- Jazz
  
  of 1,947
  
  490
- Pop
  
  of 13,664
  
  3,941

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1920s

2.9910

1930s

0.0000

1940s

2.8116

1950s

0.0321

1960s

1.8969

1980s

1.9956

1990s

0.0000

2000s

0.1533

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: Coleman Hawkins is ranked overall as 2.5434 out of 4 stars

2.5434

Coleman Hawkins Biography

Formed:

November 1904

Disbanded:

May 1969

Genres:

Blues, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Miscellaneous, Pop

Labels:

Allegro Corporation, Allegro Distributed Labels, Allegro Distributed Lines, Arpeggio, Asl Living Era, Avid Records, Best Of Jazz/city Hall, Black Label Records, Bluebird/sbme, Boplicity/ace, Camden/wave, Capitol/emi/sbk/chrysalis, Classic Compact Discs, Classic World Productions Inc., Classics

History:

Coleman Hawkins was the first important tenor saxophonist and he remains one of the greatest of all time. A consistently modern improviser whose knowledge of chords and harmonies was encyclopedic, Hawkins had a 40-year prime (1925-1965) during which he could hold his own with any competitor. Coleman Hawkins started piano lessons when he was five, switched to cello at age seven, and two years later began on tenor. At a time when the saxophone was considered a novelty instrument, used in ...more

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