Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed Hawk and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, asJoachim E. Berendt explained: "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". While Hawkins is strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.
Fellow saxophonist Lester Young, known as "Pres", commented in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review: "As far as I'm concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the President first, right? As far as myself, I think I'm the second one." Miles Davis once said: "When I heard Hawk, I learned to play ballads."
== Tossup Questions ==
# This man included his composition "Stuffy" on a collaboration with vibraphonist Milt Jackson entitled Bean Bags. The Depression forced this man to leave Fletcher Henderson's band for a five-year stay in Europe. This man reworked a recording of song he developed at Kelly's Stables into an unprecedented, unaccompanied solo called "Picasso;" that feat was later matched by Eric Dolphy on a similar instrument. Thelonious (*) Monk got his start recording with this musician's quartet. On an album released by Impulse! Records, Duke Ellington "Meets" this man, who appears "At The Opera House" with his co-bandleader Roy Eldridge. Bebop is sometimes held to have begun with this man's recording of a Johnny Green standard. For 10 points, name this jazz saxophonist behind an influential recording of "Body and Soul."
# He left one of his earliest groups after they performed in the revue Strutting Along. Through his work with Wilbur Sweatman, he met a collaborator with whom he would work for the next decade, producing an album that featured his first major recorded solo, Dirty Blues. After achieving popularity with Fletcher Henderson's band, he toured Europe making many studio recordings with musicians like Django Reinhardt and Benny Carter and performing solos on songs like Crazy Rhythm. His only collaboration with Duke Ellington appeared in 1962 with Impulse Records, and soon after he started to show signs of serious alcoholism. Another highly influential solo of his, recorded in 1939 after years of playing it at Kelly's Stables, was Picasso. For 10 points, identify this performer famous for Body and Soul, who, at the height of his popularity, led a group with Roy Eldridge and earned the title "Father of the Tenor Sax."