When I was coming up, you had Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and all those people. You studied at DuSable High School, which Dinah Washington, Gene Ammons and Von also attended. What was the jazz ...

“I had been following jazz all my short life up to that time, so I knew a great deal about the guys. My particular idols, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, were both in that picture. Those guys ...

But at age 14, after seeing the film, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, where Kirk Douglas portrays American Jazz trumpeter ... Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Sarah Vaughan ...

The term is well-known, but many jazz newcomers often ask ... It’s worth noting that tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins anticipated the improv aspect of bebop when he recorded the song ...

Tadd Dameron as a composer and arranger was the man who in the 1940s and ‘50s was among the first to use the sometimes raw and undisciplined devices of the then- new style of jazz called bebop ...

A decade of trailblazing and trauma defined jazz pianist Earl “Bud” Powell’s life prior to recording “Piano Interpretations” ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – Former Illinois men’s basketball player Coleman Hawkins is back in Champaign-Urbana– No, not to rejoin Underwood’s team. Hawkins is out of college eligibility but ...

Not many anticipated a Florida vs. Houston NCAA championship. But Coleman Hawkins did. The former Kansas State star's pre-tournament predictions pinned his former Big 12 rivals against the Gators ...

Kansas State's Coleman Hawkins discussed his mental battles dealing with social media and online hate all season long. Apparently, it was more detrimental than we thought. Hawkins went as far as ...

Shortly after he played his final game with the Kansas State men’s basketball team, Coleman Hawkins tearfully admitted that the NIL criticism he received in arenas and on social media got to him ...