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bainer:

Coleman Hawkins photographed after a “Just Jazz” concert (photo by Bob Willoughby)
bainer:

[Left to right] Artie Shapiro, Joe Marsala, Oran “Hot Lips” Page and Coleman Hawkins in Mamaroneck, NY, 1939 (photo by Charles Peterson)
delightfulee:

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962).
thejazzpoet:

 
Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and Holiday at a Columbia Records recording session in 1957.
delightfulee:

Nothing wrong with being a little Fat, as long as it’s Navarro.
Here’s to a bopping New Year in 2012.
delightfulee:

Max Roach, We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960).
atane:

Hawkins! Alive! At The Village Gate is a great live album by Coleman Hawkins. The Hawk is relaxed, and is plain having fun here. Hawkins was almost 58 when this album was recorded.
atane:

Born on this day: Coleman Hawkins
Photo by William Gottlieb (Source) - btw: That’s a very young Miles Davis behind Hawkins. He was around 21 at the time.

Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker

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Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Stitt.
Coleman Hawkins.
Coleman Hawkins. Photograph by Ray Avery.