There’s no sound in jazz quite like Coleman Hawkins‘ distinctive tenor saxophone with its softly quivering vibrato. Indeed, his horn’s seductively warm, breathy tone can convey intimacy and ...

Kansas State's Coleman Hawkins passed on the NBA to play one more season in college but it hasn't gone as expected ...

“As far as I’m concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the President ... On 11th October 1939 he recorded the sublime, ‘Body and Soul’, which just about everyone at the time and since ...

Last May, Coleman Hawkins was preparing for life in the NBA. He attended the combine in Chicago where he was considered a second-round pick or undrafted rookie free agent. Then Hawkins decided he ...