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Hawkins, Coleman Filmography
- Jazz Giants of the 20th Century (2007)
- Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection (2005)
- Improvisation (2004)
- Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photography of Milt Hinton (2004)
- A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
- The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989)
- Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (1971)
- After Hours (1961)
- The Crimson Canary (1945)
- Stormy Weather (1943)
Coleman Hawkins was called "The father of the tenor sax". He was a pioneer in this instrument, starting his career with the blues singer Mamie Smith in 1921. In 1923 he played with Fletcher Henderson until 1934. In this orchestra he was a partner of Louis Armstrong in 1924. In the mid-thirties he went to Europe and played with many musicians, for example Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and Benny Carter. In 1939 he returned to the USA and made a classic recording of "Body and Soul". The next year he formed his own big band. He was in activity until his death in 1969, in these last years he played with a small group with the trumpet player Roy Eldridge.
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- Under a Blanket of Blue
- I Want to Be Loved
- Poor Butterfly
- At Dawning
- Then I'll Be Tired of You
- Just a Gigolo
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You
- For You, for Me, for Evermore
- Until the Real Thing Comes Along
- Greensleeves
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- I'll Never Be the Same
- More Than You Know
- Trouble Is a Man
- Make Someone Happy
- Body and Soul
- Little Girl Blue (take 3)
- I Never Knew (take 5)
- Dinner For One Please, James (take 3)
- The Bean Stalks Again
- His Very Own Blues
- The Day You Came Along
- Have You Met Miss Jones (take 7)
- The Essence of You
- There Will Never Be Another You
- I'm Shooting High
- Bean and the Boys (issued as "39-25-39")
- There Will Never Be Another You (alternate take)
- There Will Never Be Another You (alternate take)
- Little Girl Blue (take 1)
- Dinner For One Please, James (take 2)
- I Never Knew (take 2)
- Have You Met Miss Jones (take 1)
- Have You Met Miss Jones (alternate take)
- Have You Met Miss Jones (alternate take)
- The Day You Came Along (alternate take)
- Out of the Night
- Autumn Leaves
- Stranger in Paradise
- My Mother's Eyes
- Everything Happens to Me
- It Had to Be You
- With Every Breath I Take
- I'm Yours
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- A Cottage for Sale
- The Stampede
- Miss Hannah
- Hello Lola
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- Sweet Sorrow Blues
- Queer Notions
- Jamaica Shout
- The Day You Came Along
- Hocus Pocus
- Lost in a Fog
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Meet Doctor Foo
- Body and Soul
- Bouncing With Bean
- I Can't Believe...
- I Surrender Dear
- Smack
- Feedin' the Bean
- My Ideal
- Boff Boff
- Voodte
- Sweet Lorraine
- Bu De Daht
- I'll Never Be the Same
- When Day Is Done
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- More Than You Know
- Moonglow
- Just a Gigolo
- Speak Low
Swingville: Coleman Hawkins With the Red Garland Trio
(Released 2006)
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- Broke but Happy
- Blues on the Bayou
- Jumpin' With Judy
- Blues on the Delta
- Save It Pretty Mama
- For Lovers Only
- Peachtree Street Blues
- Out to Lunch
- Every Man for Himself
- Look Out Jack!
- Dee Tees
- Back Talk
- Bird Brain
- Black Maria's Blues
- There Is Nothing Like a Dame
- On My Way
- Should I
- Thanks for the Misery
- Flight Eleven
- You Can't Take That Away From Me
- I'll Tell You Later
- Modern Fantasy
- I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face
- Goin' Down Home
- Confessin'
- September Song
- Last Stop
- Body and Soul
- Where There's a Will, Baby
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Hello Lola
- Hocus Pocus
- One Sweet Letter From You
- Dinah
- Bouncing With Bean
- Say It Isn't So
- Half Step Down Please
- Angel Face
- I Love You
- The Bean Stalks Again
- There'll Never Be Another You
- His Very Own Blues
- April in Paris
- I Love Paris
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Just Friends
- Body and Soul
- On the Bean
- Bessemer Bound Blues
- Hop Off
- Look Out Jack
- Cocktails for Two
- Bean and the Boys (take 1)
- Norman Granz Introduction of Coleman Hawkins / Rifftide
- Sophisticated Lady
- Sancticity
- Laura
- Blues for Tomorrow
- Ruby, My Dear
- Blues Wail
- Greensleeves
- Until the Real Thing Comes Along
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- Greensleeves
- Since I Fell for You
- I'll Get By (as Long as I Have You)
- Soul Blues
- I'll Never Be the Same
- The Sweetest Sounds (From No Strings)
- I Want to Be Loved
- In a Mellow Tone
- Make Someone Happy (From "Do-Re-Mi")
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Essence of Jazz
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Meet Doctor Foo
- One Hour
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Hocus Pocus
- Body and Soul
- Lady Be Good
- Say It Isn't So
- My Melancholy Baby
- Spotlite
- Jamaica Shout
- April in Paris
- Bouncing With Bean
- Allen's Alley
- The Sheik of Araby
- Crazy Rhythm
- Darktown Strutter's Ball
- Perdido
- Sweethearts On Parade
- And So To Sleep Again
- (It's No) Sin
- Spellbound
- Carioca
- Lost In A Fog
- Midnight Sun
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- I Can't Get Started
- Ruby
- Where Is Your Heart
- It's Only A Paper Moon
- Sih-Sah
- Bean's Talking Again
- Bah-U-Bah
- I Surrender Dear
- Sophisticated Lady
- My Blue Heaven
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Organ Grinder's Swing
- Smack
- I Surrender Dear
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- Dedication
- Mop Mop
- My Ideal
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Bean at the Met
- Cattin' at Keynote
- Make Believe
- Don't Blame Me
- Just One of Those Things
- Hallelujah
- Memories of You
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- A Shanty in Old Shanty Town
- My Man
- Rifftide
- Stardust
- Stuffy
- I'm Through With Love
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
- Bean Soup
- The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
- Ill Wind
- My Melancholy Baby
- In a Mellotone
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Stomping at the Savoy
- Midnight Sun
- The Bean Stalks Again
- Out of Nowhere
- Lucky Duck
- I Can't Get Started
- Ruby
- And So to Sleep Again
- Get Happy
- Foolin' Around
- The Man I Love
- Body and Soul
- Hello Lola
- One Hour (If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight)
- The House of David Blues
- Queer Notions
- It's the Talk of the Town
- The Day You Came Along
- Jamaica Shout
- I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
- Donegal Cradle Song
- It Sends Me
- Dinah
- When Day Is Done
- Dedication
- Esquire Bounce
- My Ideal
- Voodte
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- The Man I Love
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Stuffy
- Say It Isn't So
- Picasso
- Body and Soul
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- The Man I Love
- My Ideal
- Stumpy
- Sweet Lorraine
- Woody 'n You
- Yesterdays
- Bean's Talking Again
- Night and Day
- Don't Blame Me
- Just One of Those Things
- There's a Small Hotel
- I Surrender, Dear
- Sophisticated Lady
- Indian Summer
- Picasso
- Rainbow Mist
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Lady Be Good
- Jamaica Shout
- Body and Soul
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Crazy Rhythm
- Out of Nowhere
- Lost in a Fog
- Lullaby
- The Day You Came Along
- How Come You Do Me Like You Do
- My Melancholy Baby
- Honey Suckle Rose
- Stardust
- Netcha's Dream
- Well Alright Then
- Lady Be Good
- Avalon
- Somebody Loves Me
- What a Difference a Day Makes
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- My Buddy
- Crazy Rhythm
- Meditation
- Might Like the Blues
- Out of Nowhere
- Pardon Me, Pretty Baby
- A Strange Fact
- The Stampede
- If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- Queer Notions
- It's the Talk of the Town
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Body and Soul
- The Man I Love
- Bean at the Met
- Woody 'n' You
- I Mean You
- Bean and the Boys
- Stuffy
- Picasso
- La Rosita
- Ruby, My Dear
- Just Friends
- Crazy Rhythm
- Driva Man
- Self Portrait (of the Bean)
The Chronological Classics: Coleman Hawkins 1946-1947
(Released 1998)
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- Say It Isn't So
- Spotlite
- Low Flame
- Allen's Alley
- Indiana Winter
- Indian Summer
- Blow Me Down
- Buckin' the Blues
- Dixieland Stomp
- I Mean You
- Bean and the Boys
- You Go to My Head
- Cocktails for Two
- The Old Songs
- You Said Good-Bye
- Bean-A-Re-Bop
- Isn't It Romantic
- The Way You Look Tonite
- Phantomesque
- How Did She Look?
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- Never in a Million Years
- You Were Meant for Me
- Rainbow Mist
- Woody'n You
- Bu-Dee-Daht
- Disorder at the Border
- Yesterdays
- Feeling Zero
- Salt Peanuts
- Uptown Lullaby
- Pick-Up Boys
- Porgy
- Concerto for Tenor
- Taps Miller
- I Can't Get Started
- Sweet and Lovely
- Picasso
- Bean at the Met
- Like Someone in Love
- I'm in the Mood for Love
- Cattlin' at Keynote
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- Just One of Those Things
- The Father Co-operates
- La Rosita
- Just One More Chance
- Beyond the Blue Horizon
- Night and Day
- Don't Blame Me
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Hallelujah
- Thru' for the Night
- Ladies Lullaby
- The Night Ramble
- Leave My Heart Alone
- Hawk's Variations, Part 1
- Hawk's Variations, Part 2
- April in Paris
- Rifftide
- Stardust
- Stuffy
- Hollywood Stampede
- I'm Through With Love
- What Is There to Say?
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
- Too Much of a Good Thing
- Bean Soup
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- It's the Talk of the Town
- Just a Riff
- Before Long
- What's Happenin'
- Mop De Mop Mop
- My Ideal
- I'll Never Be the Same
- You're Blasé
- I Wished on the Moon
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- Like Someone in Love
- My Melancholy Baby
- Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
- In a Mellow Tone
- There's No You
- The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
- Somebody Loves Me
- Blues for Rene
- Begin the Beguine
- I Never Had a Chance
- I Never Had a Chance
- I Wished on the Moon
- Like Someone in Love
- Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
- In a Mellow Tone
- There's No You
- Blues for Rene
- Desafinado
- I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (Jazz Samba)
- Samba para Bean
- I Remember You
- One Note Samba (Samba de uma nota so)
- O pato (The Duck)
- Un abraco no bonfa (An Embrace to Bonfa)
- Stumpy Bossa Nova
The Chronological Classics: Coleman Hawkins 1944-1945
(Released 1996)
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- All the Things You Are
- Step on It
- Riding on 52nd Street
- Memories of You
- Out to Lunch
- In the Hush of the Night
- Look Out Jack!
- Every Man for Himself
- I'm Yours
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- Beyond the Blue Horizon
- A Shanty in Old Shanty Town
- My Man
- El Salon De Gutbucket
- Embraceable You
- Undecided
- Recollections
- Drifting on a Reed
- Flyin' Hawk
- On the Bean
- Sportman's Hop
- Bean Stalking
- Ready for Love
- Go Li'l Liza
- Quintessence
- Don't Love Me
- Love Song From "Apache"
- Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
- Swingin' Scotch
- Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)
The Chronological Classics: Coleman Hawkins 1929-1934
(Released 1996)
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- Hello Lola
- One Hour
- Dismal Dan
- Poor Richard
- Down Georgia Way
- Georgia on My Mind
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- The Darktown Strutters' Ball
- You Rascal You
- The Day You Came Along
- Jamaica Shout
- Heartbreak Blues
- Happy Feet
- Rhythm Crazy
- Ol' Man River
- Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
- Ain't Cha Glad
- I've Got to Sing a Torch Song
- It Sends Me
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
The Chronological Classics: Coleman Hawkins 1937-1939
(Released 1996)
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- I Wanna Go to Harlem
- Consolation
- A Strange Fact
- Original Dixiland One Step
- Smiles
- Something Is Gonna Give Me Away
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Crazy Rhythm
- Out of Nowhere
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Lamentation
- Devotion
- Stardust
- Well, All Right Then
- Blues Evermore
- Dear Old Southland
- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
- I Know That You Know
- When Budda Smiles
- Swinging in the Groove
- The Darktown Strutters' Ball
- My Melancholy Baby
The Chronological Classics: Coleman Hawkins 1939-1940
(Released 1996)
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- Meet Doctor Foo
- Fine Dinner
- She's Funny That Way
- Body and Soul
- It's Tight Like That
- Easy Rider
- Scratch My Back
- Save It, Pretty Mama
- When Day Is Done
- The Shelk of Araby
- My Blue Haven
- Bouncing With Bean
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Shake It and Break It
- A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
- Pom Pom
- Dedication
- Passin' It Around
- Serenade to a Sleeping Beauty
- Rocky Comfort
- Forgive a Fool
- Hello Lola
- One Hour (If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight)
- Dismal Dan
- Poor Richard
- Down Georgia Way
- Girls Like You Were Meant for Me
- Georgia on My Mind
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- The Darktown Strutters' Ball
- I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
- Someday Sweetheart
- I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
- The River's Takin' Care of Me
- Ain't Cha Got Music
- Stringin' Along on a Shoestring
- Shadows on the Swanee
- The Day You Came Along
- Jamaica Shout
- Heartbreak Blues
- Happy Feet
- I'm Rhythm Crazy Now
- Ol' Man River
- Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
- Ain't Cha Glad
The Chronological Classics: Coleman Hawkins 1943-1944
(Released 1995)
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- Esquire Bounce
- Boff Boff (Mop Mop)
- My Ideal
- Esquire Blues
- Voodte
- How Deep Is the Ocean
- Hawkins Barrel House
- Stumpy
- Lover Come Back to Me
- Blues Changes
- Crazy Rhythm
- Get Happy
- The Man I Love
- Sweet Lorraine
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- 's Wonderful
- I'm in the Mood for Love
- Bean at the Met
- Woody'n You
- Bu-Dee-Daht
- Yesterdays
- Flame Thrower
- Imagination
- Night and Day
- Cattin' at Keynote
- Disorder at the Border
- Feeling Zero
- Rainbow Mist
- Pick-Up-Boys
- Porgy
- Uptown Lullaby
- Salt Peanuts
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Three Little Words
- Battle of the Saxes
- Louise
- Make Believe
- Don't Blame Me
- Just One of Those Things
- Hallelujah
The Quintessence: New York – Camden – Londres – Paris – Chicago 1926-1944
(Released 1995)
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- The Stampede
- Wherever There's a Will There's a Way, My Baby
- Hello Lola!
- One Hour
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- New King Porter Stomp
- Sweet Sorrow Blues
- Sweet Sue
- Queer Notions
- It's the Talk of the Town
- The Day You Came Along
- Jamaica Shout
- Hocus Pocus
- Lost in a Fog
- Star Dust
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Crazy Rhythm
- Out of Nowhere
- Body and Soul
- The Big Head
- Time on My Hands
- Rifftide (A.K.A. Disorder at the Border)
- Bean and the Boys
- Cocktails for Two
- Hanid
- Just One of Those Things
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Hallelujah!
- Night and Day
- 'S Wonderful
- Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
- The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
- I Wished on the Moon
- Picasso
Storyville Masters of Jazz, Volume 12: Coleman Hawkins
(Released 1994)
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- All the Things You Are
- Stuffy
- Yesterdays
- Just You, Just Me
- Lover Man
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Honeysuckle Rose
Coleman Hawkins in the 50's - Body and Soul Revisited
(Released 1993)
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- (It's No) Sin
- And So to Sleep Again
- Spellbound
- Lost in a Fog
- Carioca
- Midnight Sun
- If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
- I Can't Get Started
- Ruby (From the Motion Picture Ruby Gentry)
- Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)
- My Blue Heaven
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Organ Grinder's Swing
- Perdido
- Sweethearts on Parade
- The Man I Love
- Foolin' Around
- Time on My Hands
- Ornithology
- Body and Soul
- Unlisted Blues
The Chronological Classics: Coleman Hawkins 1934-1937
(Released 1991)
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- Lullaby
- Lady Be Good
- Lost In a Fog
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Some of These Days
- After You've Gone
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- I Wish I Were Twins
- Hands Across the Table
- Blue Moon
- Avalon
- What a Difference a Day Made
- Star Dust
- Chicago
- Meditation
- What Harlem is to Me
- Netcha's Dream
- Love Cries...
- Sorrow
- Tiger Rag
- It May Not Be True
- I'm in the Mood for Love
- You Blew Out the Flame in My Heart
- I Want to Be Loved
- In a Mellow Tone
- Greensleeves
- Through for the Night
- Until the Real Thing Comes Along
- The Sweetest Sounds
- Then I'll Be Tired of You
- Jammin' in Swingville
- Soul Blues
- I Hadn't Anyone Till You
- Groovin'
- Greensleeves
- Sunday Mornin'
- Until The Real Thing Comes Along
- Sweetnin'
- Running Wild
- I'll Never Be the Same
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- Blue Room
- The Breeze and I
- What's New
- I'll String Along With You
- My Own Blues
- Lamentation
- Devotion
- Stardust
- Well, All Right Then
- Swinging in the Groove (Take 2)
- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
- When Buddha Smiles
- Dear Old Southland
- Blues Evermore
- I Know That You Know (Take 2)
- Salt Peanuts
- Porgy
- Pick-Up Boys
- Uptown Lullaby
- Look Here
- I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
- Take It on Back
- Willow Weep for Me
- When Day Is Done
- The Beat
- Memories of You
- Esquire Jump
- Thanks for the Memory
- The Man I Love
- Don't Blame Me
- Just a Gigolo
- The One I Love (Belongs to Someone Else)
- Time on My Hands (You in My Arms)
- Sweet and Lovely
- Exactly Like You
- Street of Dreams
- Sugar (That Sugar Baby O'Mine)
- Wrapped Tight
- Intermezzo
- Out of Nowhere
- Indian Summer
- Red Roses for a Blue Lady
- Marcheta
- Beautiful Girl
- She's Fit
- And I Still Love You
- Bean's Place
- Introduction
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- If I Had You
- Bean And The Boys
- Ow!
- All The Things You Are
- It's The Talk Of The Town
- Body and Soul [1950]
- The Man I Love 1950
- Body And Soul 1953
- April in Paris
- How Strange
- Half Step Down Please
- Angle Face
- Jumpin' Jane
- I Love You
- Picasso
- The Big Head
- Skippy
- Platinum Love
- There's a Small Hotel
- Sih-Sah
- It's Only a Paper Moon
- Bean's Talking Again
- Bay-U-Bah
- I Surrender Dear
- Sophisticated Lady
- The Man I Love
- It's the Talk of the Town
- You've Got Me Crying Again
- Can Anyone Explain?
- I Cross My Fingers
- I'll Know
- Bird of Prey Blues
- My One and Only Love
- Vignette
- Ooh-Wee, Miss GP!
- You've Changed
- Get Set
- Sunday
- Hanid
- Honey Flower
- Nabob
- Introduction by Al "Jazzbo" Collins
- Foolin' Around
- The Man I Love
- I'll Never Be the Same
- The Breeze and I
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- I'll String Along With You
- Blue Room
- What's New
- Running Wild
- My Own Blues
- Somebody Loves Me
- Mighty Like the Blues
- Pardon Me Pretty Baby
- My Buddy
- Stardust
- Well All Right Then
- Blues Evermore
- Dear Old Southland
- Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
- I Know That You Know
- When Bhudda Smiles
- Swinging in the Groove
- The Darktown Strutter's Ball
- My Melancholy Baby
- Blues For Yolande
- It Never Entered My Mind
- La Rosita
- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
- Prisoner Of Love
- Tangerine
- Shine On Harvest Moon
- Blues For Yolande [mono]
- Blues For Yolande [preliminary takes]
- In the Hush of the Night
- Out to Lunch
- Every Man for Himself
- Look Out Jack
- On the Bean
- Recollections
- Flyin' Hawk
- Drifting on a Reed
- I Mean You
- Bean and the Boys (take 1)
- Bean and the Boys (take 2)
- Cocktails for Two
- You Go to My Head
- Stasch
- Trust in Me
- Roll 'Em Pete
- Skrouk
- Since I Fell for You
- Easy Walker
- Traumerei
- All the Time
- Lady Butterfly
- Not Quite Night
- Pebbles
- I Knew Dana
- Lullaby
- Hawk Talk
- Misty Morning
- Lonely Tenor
- Whisper to Me
- Body and Soul
- Dinah
- April in Paris
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- I've Got the World on a String
- Under Paris Skies
- Angel Face
- When Lights Are Low
- She's Funny That Way
- My Blue Heaven
- Say It Isn't So
- I Love Paris
- Sweet Lorraine
- How Strange
- Spotlite
- Blues for Rampart Street
- St. Louis Blues
- Fogyism
- Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
- Hard Times Blues
- Cherry Pickin' Blues
- Hard, Oh Lord
- Lawdy, Lawdy Blues
- Death Letter Blues
- Mama Goes Where Papa Goes
- Juicy Fruit
- Blues for Tomorrow
- Blues Wail
- Soul Blues
- Skronk
- Stealin' the Bean
- Foot Pattin'
- Blues for Ron
- Pedalin'
- Bean Stalkin'
- Indian Summer
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Crazy Rhythm
- Take the ''A'' Train
- Indiana (Back Home Again In)
- April in Paris
- Mon Homme
- Under Paris Skies (Sous le Ciel de Paris)
- Mimi
- La Chnouf
- La Vie en Rose
- La Mer (Beyond the Sea)
- Paris in the Spring
- I Love Paris
- Mademoiselle de Paris
- Chien Perdu Sans Collier
- Tu n'Peux Pas t'Figurer
- Disorder at the Border
- Daybreak in Dinant
- Stan's Palace
- Dali
- Riviera Blues
- Rifftide
- On My Way
- Birth of the Blues
- Bean and the Boys
- Bayou Atmosphere
- April in Paris
- Rifftide
- Stardust
- Stuffy
- Hollywood Stampede
- I'm Through With Love
- What Is There to Say?
- Wrap Up Your Troubles in Dreams
- Too Much of a Good Thing
- Bean Soup
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- It's the Talk of the Town
- Isn't It Romantic
- Bean-A-Re-Bop
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Phantomesque
- For You, for Me, Forevermore
- While We're Young
- Then I'll Be Tired of You
- Mighty Like a Rose
- At Dawning
- Trouble Is a Man
- Poor Butterfly
- I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
- Say It Isn't So
- Spotlite
- Indiana Winter
- Indian Summer
- How Did She Look?
- April in Paris
- How Strange
- Half Step Down, Please
- Angel Face
- There Will Never Be Another You
- The Bean Stalks Again
- Body and Soul
- I Love Paris
- Under Paris Skies
- I've Got the World on a String
- Sweet Lorraine
- Watermelon Man
- All the Things You Are
- Blues For Yolande
- It Never Entered My Mind
- Rosita
- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
- Prisoner Of Love
- Tangerine
- Shine On Harvest Moon
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- 'S Wonderful
- I'm in the Mood for Love
- Bean at the Met
- Flame Thrower
- Imagination
- Night and Day
- Cattin' at Keynote
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Three Little Words
- Battle of the Saxes
- Louise
- Make Believe
- Don't Blame Me
- Just One of Those Things
- Hallelujah
- I'm Yours
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- Beyond the Blue Horizon
- A Shanty in Old Shanty Town
- St. Louis Shuffle
- Wherever There's a Will, There's a Way (My Baby)
- Hello Lola!
- One Hour
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- Hocus Pocus
- One Sweet Letter From You
- Meet Doctor Foo
- Fine Dinner
- She's Funny That Way
- Body and Soul
- When Day Is Done
- The Sheik of Araby
- My Blue Heaven
- Bouncing With Bean
- One O'Clock Jump
- Goin' Down Home
- I'll Follow My Secret Heart
- On My Way
- I'll Tell You Later
- What a Difference a Day Makes
- Last Stop
- Should I
- Flight Eleven
- Modern Fantasy
- Confessin'
- September Song
- You Can't Take That Away From Me
- I Talk to the Trees
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Wanting You
- Strange Music
- The Man That Got Away
- Get Out of Town
- Here I'll Stay
- A Fellow Needs a Girl
- Meet Doctor Foo
- Fine Dinner
- She's Funny that Way
- Body and Soul
- When Day Is Done
- The Sheik of Araby
- My Blue Heaven
- Bouncing With Bean
- April in Paris
- How Strange
- Half Step Down Please
- Angel Face
- Jumping for Jane
- I Love You
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Little Girl Blue
- Dinner for One Please James
- His Very Own Blues
- 39"-25"-39"
- The Bean Stalks Again
- Have You Met Miss Jones?
- Body and Soul
- The Essence of You
- Smack
- Smack #5
- I Surrender Dear
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- I Can't Believe You're in Love With Me #2
- Dedication
- Esquire Bounce
- Boff Boff #2 (Aka Mop Mop)
- My Ideal
- Esquire Blues
- Sittin' In
- Stardust
- Body & Soul
- 46 West 52
- Blowin' Up a Breeze
- Blowin' Up a Breeze #4
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Monday at Minton's
- Monday at Minton's #3
- Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You?
- Blues for Yolanda
- It Never Entered My Mind
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- I'll Never Be the Same
- Budd Johnson
- La Rosita
- De-Dar
- Like Someone in Love
- That's All
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- Maria
- Sweet Lorraine
- My Ideal
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- 'S Wonderful
- I'm in the Mood for Love
- Bean at the Met
- Woody'n You
- Bu-Dee-Daht
- Yesterdays
- Flame Thrower
- Imagination
- Night and Day
- Cattin' at Keynote
- Disorder at the Border
- Feeling Zero
- Rainbow Mist
- Blue Moon
- Father Co-operates
- Just One More Chance
- Thru' for the Night
- On the Sunne Side of the Street
- Three Little Words
Born: 1904-11-21
Died: 1969-05-19
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Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul
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- Duration: 2:42
- Published: 06 May 2007
- Updated: 31 May 2012
Coleman Hawkins playing Body & Soul
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After Midnight-Coleman Hawkins
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- Duration: 4:50
- Published: 21 Oct 2008
- Updated: 26 May 2012
From the 1960 Coleman Hawkins album "The Hawk Swings". Coleman Hawkins is considered "The father of the tenor saxophone" one of the greatest jazz giants.
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Coleman Hawkins, Django Reinhardt - STARDUST
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- Duration: 3:22
- Published: 21 Feb 2009
- Updated: 26 May 2012
From my 78rpm record collection. ts:Coleman Hawkins g:Django Reinhardt p:Stephan Grappelli recorded in 1935
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Charlie Parker-Coleman Hawkins: Ballade
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- Duration: 2:49
- Published: 06 Feb 2007
- Updated: 31 May 2012
Norman Granz: Presents,Improvisation 1950
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COLEMAN HAWKINS Body and soul
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- Duration: 3:03
- Published: 25 Mar 2009
- Updated: 29 May 2012
Album : Body and soul (1935-1956) www.apoloybaco.com
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Coleman Hawkins Quintet South Of France Blues
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- Duration: 6:56
- Published: 03 Feb 2009
- Updated: 21 May 2012
Coleman Hawkins - Honeysuckle Rose
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- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 17 Aug 2009
- Updated: 21 May 2012
Hawk plays Honeysuckle Rose
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Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies High
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- Duration: 9:59
- Published: 28 Jul 2008
- Updated: 21 May 2012
To purchase this music, please visit: www.concordmusicgroup.com Coleman Hawkins 1957 Riverside recording, "The Hawk Flies High" is featured in this episode of "Orrin Keepnews, Producer." One of themost respected of all jazz producers, Orrin Keepnews's long and productive career has included working with such artists as Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery, Cannonball Adderley and Thelonious Monk, as well as founding influential jazz labels Riverside and Milestone. The Keepnews Collection, from The Concord Music Group is a reissue series of albums produced by this jazz legend. It features time-honored titles recorded by the true titans of jazz, originally released on Riverside and Milestone Records. All reissues, with 24-bit remastering from the master tapes, include original liner notes and Keepnews' voluminous new commentaries; when available, the original tracks are supplemented by bonus cuts from the sessions. Concept and Production Bret Primack www.jazzepk.com
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Autumn Leaves - Coleman Hawkins
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- Duration: 2:49
- Published: 02 May 2011
- Updated: 27 May 2012
The Gilded Hawk Coleman Hawkins (ts) Acc by Glen Osser's Orchestra acc by Woodwinds, Strings and Rhythm Recorded 1956/10/17, 1957/2/7-8 Capitol T819
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Body and Soul Coleman Hawkins 1967
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- Duration: 2:43
- Published: 25 Jan 2011
- Updated: 20 May 2012
Body and Soul Hawkins Coleman 1967 Body and Soul was recorded by Coleman Hawkins in 1939. He has probably played it more than a thousand times since. However I found a version on film done in the later part of his life. Here in a concert taped by BBC in London in 1967 of Jazz at the Philharmonic Coleman plays Body and Soul. Pianist Teddy Wilson, bassist(?) and drummer Louie Bellson
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Coleman Hawkins - April in Paris
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- Duration: 3:09
- Published: 18 Mar 2009
- Updated: 30 May 2012
April in Paris
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Coleman Hawkins...Body And Soul
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 31 Jul 2009
- Updated: 29 Apr 2012
I Want To Be Loved - Coleman Hawkins With The Red Garland Trio
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- Duration: 6:00
- Published: 28 Dec 2010
- Updated: 25 May 2012
Coleman Hawkins With The Red Garland Trio Coleman Hawkins (ts) Red Garland (pf) Doug Watkins (b) Charles "Specs" Wright (ds) Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, August 12, 1959 Swingville SVLP 2001
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coleman hawkins quintet - stoned
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- Duration: 7:38
- Published: 14 Apr 2008
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Coleman Hawkins(ts), Harry "Sweets" Edsion(t), maybe Jimmy Woode(b)?, maybe Sir Charles Thompson(p)?, Papa Jo Jones(d) (1964)
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Charlie Parker & Coleman Hawkins 1950.wmv
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- Duration: 4:50
- Published: 04 Dec 2008
- Updated: 29 May 2012
Session I Improvisation of Genius of Jazz CHARLIE PARKER alto sax and COLEMAN HAWKINS tenor sax (date 1950) with: Hank Jones - Piano, Ray Brown - Double bass, Buddy Rich - Drums. By Peppe Ruotolo
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Coleman Hawkins - "Desafinado (Antonio Carlos Jobim)"
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- Duration: 5:50
- Published: 05 Dec 2009
- Updated: 27 May 2012
Fan Post. CD:"Desafinado" Buy CD/MP3: www.cduniverse.com (c)1962, 1997 Impulse!
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78rpm: Crazy Rhythm - Coleman Hawkins and his All-Star "Jam" Band, 1937 - Victor 26219
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- Duration: 3:01
- Published: 15 May 2011
- Updated: 24 Mar 2012
Benny Carter fans (yeah you, "BcuzJazz" ;) ) get ready to salivate on some damn tasty swingin' here!!!!! Yeah, Coleman Hawkins may have organized the band, but the arranging has that signature lush, rich & riffing section work of Benny Carter's fingerprints all over. :) And with Django & Grappelly present to boot!!!!! This is one I snagged (of a group of 9) at a community yard sale back in late 2001 - up until a few weeks ago, I'd completely forgotten I had this beauty! The personnel for this April 28, 1937 session in Paris, France are: Coleman Hawkins, Alix Combelle - tenor saxes Benny Carter, Andre Ekyan - alto saxes Django Reinhardt - guitar Stephane Grappelly - piano (! - hardly a note of piano is heard) Eugène D'Hellemmes - bass Tommy Benford - drums Dig.....
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Coleman Hawkins - Angel Face
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- Duration: 3:14
- Published: 26 Aug 2008
- Updated: 30 May 2012
Beautifull jazz ballad, owershadowed by his greatest success "Body and Soul"
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Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins "Lover Man" (1963)
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- Duration: 8:51
- Published: 13 Feb 2010
- Updated: 29 May 2012
Sonny Meets Hawk! is a 1963 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, with Coleman Hawkins appearing as guest artist. It was recorded at RCA Victor Studio "B" in New York City on July 15 and 18, 1963. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org The album marks the first time the two saxophonists had entered a recording studio together, although they had appeared on stage together briefly that same year at the Newport Jazz Festival. Personnel Sonny Rollins - Tenor Sax Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Sax Paul Bley - Piano Roy McCurdy - Drums Henry Grimes - Bass Bob Cranshaw - Bass "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (often called simply "Lover Man") is a 1941 popular song written by Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, and James Sherman. It is particularly associated with Billie Holiday, for whom it was written, and her version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989. Holiday's version reached #5 on the R&B chart in 1945. Charlie Parker did a rendition of "Lover Man", considered by many to be one of his most passionate recordings, during which he was horribly intoxicated. Parker himself considered it one of his most shameful moments. Barbra Streisand recorded "Lover Man" for her 1967 album, Simply Streisand, with an arrangement by David Shire. She also sang the song live during her 1994 concert tour.
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Coleman Hawkins - Star Dust
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- Duration: 8:31
- Published: 27 May 2011
- Updated: 23 May 2012
- Coleman Hawkins featuring Harry Edison, Thad Jones, Clark Terry, JJ Johnson, Lionel Hampton, Bucky Pizzarelli, Hank Jones, Roy Eldridge - „Midnight Blues" (France, 1967)
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Famous & Recognizable Jazz Artists
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- Duration: 14:56
- Published: 12 May 2007
- Updated: 28 May 2012
Featuring: Charlie Parker - Saxophone Coleman Hawkins - Tenor saxophone Hank Jones - Piano Ray Brown - Double bass Buddy Rich - Drums Bill Harris - Trombone Lester Young - Tenor saxophone Harry Edison - Trumpet Flip Phillips - Tenor saxophone Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals, Scatting The Lineup: 0:18 - Coleman Hawkins, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich. 2:53 - Charlie Parker, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich. 5:15 - Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich. 7:12 - Bill Harris, Lester Young, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich. 10:43 - Flip Philips, Harry Edison, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Harris, Lester Young, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich. 14:56 - The End
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Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins 1957 ~ It Never Entered My Mind
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- Duration: 5:48
- Published: 25 Jan 2010
- Updated: 30 May 2012
Recorded: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, California October 16, 1957 Personnel: Ben Webster - Tenor Sax Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Sax Oscar Peterson - Piano Herb Ellis - Guitar Ray Brown - Bass Alvin Stoller - Drums * The Opening photograph is part of The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection David G. Berger - Co-Editor www.milthinton.com
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Coleman Hawkins - "I Remember You"
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- Duration: 4:00
- Published: 05 Dec 2009
- Updated: 26 May 2012
Fan Post. CD:"Desafinado" Buy CD/MP3: www.cduniverse.com (c)1962, 1997 Impulse!
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| Coleman Hawkins | |
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.jpg) Coleman Hawkins, circa September 1946. Photo: William P. Gottlieb. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Coleman Randolph Hawkins |
| Born | (1904-11-21)November 21, 1904 |
| Origin | Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States |
| Died | May 19, 1969(1969-05-19) (aged 64) |
| Genres | Swing music, bebop |
| Instruments | Tenor saxophone, bass saxophone, clarinet |
| Years active | 1921-1969[1] |
| Associated acts | Ben Webster, Max Roach |
Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.[2] Hawkins was one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn".[3] While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.[2]
Lester Young, who was called "Pres", in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review, said "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."[3] Miles Davis once said: "When I heard Hawk, I learned to play ballads."[3] Hawkins was nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean".
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Biography[link]
Early life and the swing era[link]
Hawkins was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1904. Some out-of-date sources say 1901, but there is no evidence to prove an earlier date; instead, there is record of Hawkins's parents' first female child being born on 8 March 1901 and dying in 1903 at the age of two, possibly basis for the mistaken belief.[4] He was named Coleman after his mother Cordelia's maiden name.
He attended high school in Chicago, then in Topeka, Kansas at Topeka High School. He later stated that he studied harmony and composition for two years at Washburn College in Topeka while still attending THS. In his youth he played piano and cello, and started playing saxophone at the age of nine; by the age of fourteen he was playing around eastern Kansas.
Hawkins's first major gig was with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds in 1921, whom he joined permanently in April 1922 and toured with through 1923, when he settled in New York City. Hawkins joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, where he remained until 1934, sometimes doubling on clarinet and bass saxophone. Hawkins's playing changed significantly during Louis Armstrong's tenure with the Henderson Orchestra during 1924-25. In the late 20's, Hawkins also participated in some of the earliest interracial recording sessions with the Mound City Blue Blowers. During the time with Henderson, he became a star soloist with an increasing amount of star solos on record. While with the band, he and Henry "Red" Allen recorded a series of small group sides for ARC (on their Perfect, Melotone, Romeo, and Oriole labels). Hawkins also recorded a number of solo recordings, with either piano or with a pick-up band of Henderson's musicians in 1933-34, just prior to his European trip. He was also featured on a landmark Benny Goodman February 2, 1934 session for Columbia, which also featured Mildred Bailey as guest vocalist.
In late 1934, Hawkins accepted an invitation to play with Jack Hylton's band in London, and toured Europe as a soloist until 1939, memorably working with Django Reinhardt and Benny Carter in Paris in 1937.[5] Having returned to the United States, on October 11, 1939, he recorded a two-chorus performance of the pop standard "Body and Soul", which he had been performing at Kelly's Stables. A landmark recording of the swing era, recorded as an afterthought at the session, it is notable in that Hawkins ignores almost all of the melody, only the first four bars are stated in a recognizable fashion. In its exploration of harmonic structure[5] it is considered by many to be the next evolutionary step in jazz recording from where Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues" in 1928 left off.
The bebop era[link]
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After an unsuccessful attempt to establish a big band, he led a combo at Kelly's Stables on Manhattan's 52nd Street with Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Miles Davis, and Max Roach as sidemen. Hawkins always had a keen ear for new talent and styles, and he was leader on what is generally considered the first ever bebop recording session with Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach in 1944.[6][7] Later he toured with Howard McGhee and recorded with J. J. Johnson and Fats Navarro. He also toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic.
In 1948 Hawkins recorded Picasso, an early piece for unaccompanied saxophone.
After 1948 Hawkins divided his time between New York and Europe, making numerous freelance recordings. In the 1960s, he appeared regularly at the Village Vanguard in Manhattan.
Hawkins directly influenced many bebop performers, and later in his career, recorded or performed with such adventurous musicians as Sonny Rollins, who considered him as his main influence, and John Coltrane. He appears on the Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Riverside) record. In 1960 he recorded on Max Roach's We Insist! - Freedom Now suite.[2]
Later life[link]
In the 1950s, Hawkins performed with more traditional musicians such as Henry "Red" Allen and Roy Eldridge with whom he appeared at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and recorded Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster with fellow tenor saxophonist Ben Webster along with Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Ray Brown (bass), and Alvin Stoller (drums).
In the 1960s, Hawkins began to drink heavily and his recording output began to wane. However, he did manage to record some notable albums with musicians such as Duke Ellington, among others. His last recording was in 1967.
With failing health, Hawkins succumbed to pneumonia in 1969 and is interred in the Yew Plot at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.[2]
The Song of the Hawk, a 1990 biography written by British jazz historian John Chilton, chronicles Hawkins's career as one of the influential jazz performers of the 20th century.
Discography[link]
"Chicago"--Decca # 661--1935 "Netcha's Dream"--Decca--# 661--1935
As leader[link]
- Body and Soul (1939–1956, RCA)
- Picasso (album) (1948)
- The Hawk in Paris (1956, RCA Victor Gold)
- The Hawk Flies High (1957)
- Bean Bags (Atlantic, 1958)
- Hawk Eyes! (1959)
- In a Mellow Tone (1960)
- Bean Stalkin' (1960)
- At Ease with Coleman Hawkins (1960), Rerelease (1985) OJC-181
- Night Hawk (1961, with Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Swingville)
- The Hawk Relaxes (1961, Moodsville)
- Good Old Broadway (1962, Moodsville)
- Alive! (1962)
- Sonny Meets Hawk! with Sonny Rollins (1963)
- Sirius (1966)
- Jazz Reunion (with Pee Wee Russell, Candid Records)
- 1962: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
- 1962: Today and Now
- 1962: Desafinado
- 1965: Wrapped Tight
- 1957: Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
- 1957: The Genius of Coleman Hawkins
- 1958: Coleman Hawkins and Confreres
- 1962: Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive at the Village Gate
As sideman[link]
With Abbey Lincoln
- Straight Ahead (Candid, 1961)
With Shelly Manne
- 2-3-4 (Impulse!, 1962)
With Thelonious Monk
- Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Riverside, 1957)
With Max Roach
- We Insist! - Freedom Now (Candid, 1960)
References[link]
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/coleman-hawkins-p25489/biography
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Scott Yanow Allmusic Biography
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Berendt, Joachim E (1976). The Jazz Book. Universal Edition.
- ↑ Chilton, John (1993). The Song of the Hawk: The Life and Recordings of Coleman Hawkins. The University of Michigan Press. pp. 2. ISBN 0-472-10212-5.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lyttleton, Humphrey (1998). The Best of Jazz. Robson Books. pp. 256–287. ISBN 1-86105-187-5.
- ↑ Togashi, Nobuaki; Matsubayashi, Kohji; Hatta, Masayuki. "Max Roach Discography". jazzdisco.org. http://www.jazzdisco.org/max-roach/discography/#440216. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ↑ Brown, Don. "What are considered the first bebop recordings? - Jazz Bulletin Board". All About Jazz. http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?p=282273#post282345. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
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| Birth name | Jean Reinhardt |
| Born | (1910-01-23)23 January 1910, Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium |
| Died | 16 May 1953(1953-05-16) (aged 43) Fontainebleau, France |
| Genres | Jazz, Gypsy jazz, Romani music |
| Occupations | Guitarist, Composer |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1928–1953 |
| Associated acts | Stéphane Grappelli, Quintette du Hot Club de France |
Django Reinhardt (French pronunciation: [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a pioneering virtuoso Belgian jazz guitarist and composer.
Often regarded as the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the idiom, he is also revered by guitarists worldwide as among the foremost exponents of the instrument. Reinhardt invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, he co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by critic Thom Jurek as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz."[1] Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages".
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
Jean "Django" Reinhardt[2] was born 23 January 1910 in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, into a family of Manouche gypsies. Reinhardt's nickname "Django" is Romani for "I awake."[3] Reinhardt spent most of his youth in Romani (Gypsy) encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age. His family made cane furniture for a living, but included several keen amateur musicians.[4]
Reinhardt was attracted to music at an early age, playing the violin at first. At the age of 12, he received a banjo-guitar as a gift. He quickly learned to play, mimicking the fingerings of musicians he watched. His first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo. During this period he was influenced by two older gypsy musicians, the banjoist Gusti Mahla and the guitarist Jean "Poulette" Castro. By the age of 13, Reinhardt was able to make a living playing music. As a result, he received little formal education and acquired the rudiments of literacy only in adult life.[5]
The injury[link]
At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife.[6] They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was rich in highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Reinhardt apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbours were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralysed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burned. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs.[7] Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.
His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With rehabilitation and practice he relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralysed. He played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and used the two injured digits only for chord work.[8]
In 1929, Reinhardt's estranged wife Florine gave birth to a son named Henri "Lousson" Reinhardt (aka Lousson Baumgartner).[9]
Discovery of jazz[link]
The period between 1929 and 1933 were formative years for Reinhardt. One development was his abandonment of the banjo-guitar in favour of the guitar. He also first heard American jazz during this period, when a man called Emile Savitry played him a number of records from his collection: he was particularly impressed with Louis Armstrong, whom he called "my brother".[10] Shortly afterwards he made the acquaintance of a young violinist with very similar musical interests—Stéphane Grappelli. In the absence of paid work in their radical new music, the two would jam together, along with a loose circle of other musicians.[11] Finally, Reinhardt would acquire his first Selmer guitar in the mid 1930s. The volume and expressiveness of the instrument were to become an integral part of his style.
Formation of the quintet[link]
In 1934, Reinhardt and Parisian violinist Grappelli were invited to form the "Quintette du Hot Club de France" with Reinhardt's brother Joseph and Roger Chaput on guitar, and Louis Vola on bass.[12] Occasionally Chaput was replaced by Reinhardt's best friend and fellow Gypsy Pierre "Baro" Ferret. The vocalist Freddy Taylor participated in a few songs, such as "Georgia On My Mind" and "Nagasaki". Jean Sablon was the first singer to record with him more than 30 songs from 1933. They also used their guitars for percussive sounds, as they had no true percussion section. The Quintette du Hot Club de France (in some of its versions at least) was one of the few well-known jazz ensembles composed only of string instruments.[13]
In Paris on 14 March 1933, Reinhardt recorded two takes each of "Parce que je vous aime" and "Si, j'aime Suzy", vocal numbers with lots of guitar fills and guitar support, using three guitarists along with an accordion lead, violin, and bass. In August of the following year recordings were also made with more than one guitar (Joseph Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, and Django), including the first recording by the Quintette. In both years, it should be noted, the great majority of their recordings featured a wide variety of horns, often in multiples, piano, and other instruments.[14] Nonetheless, the all-string format is the one most often adopted by emulators of the Hot Club sound.
Reinhardt also played and recorded with many American jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Rex Stewart (who later stayed in Paris), and participated in a jam-session and radio performance with Louis Armstrong. Later in his career he played with Dizzy Gillespie in France. Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France used the Selmer Maccaferri, the first commercially available guitars with a cutaway and later with an aluminium-reinforced neck.
World War II[link]
When World War II broke out, the original quintet was on tour in the United Kingdom. Reinhardt returned to Paris at once,[15] leaving his wife behind. Grappelli remained in the United Kingdom for the duration of the war. Reinhardt reformed the quintet, with Hubert Rostaing on clarinet replacing Grappelli's violin. In 1943, Reinhardt married Sophie "Naguine" Ziegler in Salbris, with whom he had a son, Babik Reinhardt, who became a respected guitarist in his own right.[16]
Reinhardt survived the war unscathed, unlike many Romanis who perished in the Porajmos, the Nazi regime's systematic murder of several hundred thousand European Romanis. He was well aware of the dangers he and his family faced, and made several unsuccessful attempts to escape occupied France. Part of the explanation of his survival is that he enjoyed the protection of (surreptitiously) jazz-loving Nazis such as Luftwaffe officer Dietrich Schulz-Köhn, nicknamed "Doktor Jazz".[17]
Reinhardt's problems were compounded by the fact that the Nazis also officially disapproved of jazz.[18] Reinhardt became interested in other musical directions, attempting to write a Mass for the Gypsies and Symphony (since he could not write music, he would perform improvisations to be notated by an assistant). His modernist piece Rhythm Futur was intended to be acceptably unjazzlike.
United States tour[link]
After the war, Reinhardt rejoined Grappelli in the UK, and then went on in the autumn of 1946 to tour the United States as a special guest soloist with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, when he got to play with many notable musicians and composers such as Maury Deutsch. At the end of the tour he played two nights at Carnegie Hall; he received a great ovation and took six curtain calls on the first night. Despite Reinhardt's great pride in touring with Ellington (one of his two letters to Grappelli relates this excitement), he was not really integrated into the band, playing only a few tunes at the end of the show, backed by Ellington, with no special arrangements written for him. After the tour he secured an engagement at Café Society Uptown, where he did four solos a day backed by the resident band. These performances drew large audiences.[19]
Reinhardt was reportedly given an untuned guitar to play with (discovered after strumming a chord) which took him five minutes to tune. Having failed to take along a Selmer Modèle Jazz, the guitar he made famous, he had to play on a haphazardly borrowed electric guitar, which failed to bring out the delicacy of his style.[20]
Django Reinhardt was among the first people in France to appreciate the music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, whom he sought when he arrived in New York. They were both on tour at the time, however.[citation needed]
He had been promised some jobs in California but these failed to materialize and he got tired of waiting. He returned to France in February 1947.[21]
After the quintet[link]
After returning to France, Reinhardt spent the remainder of his days re-immersed in Romani life, having found it difficult to adjust to the modern world. He would sometimes show up for concerts without a guitar or amp, or wander off to the park or beach, and on a few occasions he refused even to get out of bed. Reinhardt was known by his band, fans, and managers to be extremely unpredictable. He would often skip sold-out concerts to simply "walk to the beach" or "smell the dew".[22]
In Rome in 1949, Reinhardt recruited three Italian jazz players (on bass, piano, and snare drum) and recorded his final (double) album, "Djangology". He was once again united with Grappelli, and returned to his acoustic Selmer-Maccaferri. The recording was discovered and issued for the first time in the late 1950s.[23]
Final years[link]
In 1951, he retired to Samois-sur-Seine, near Fontainebleau, where he lived until his death. He continued to play in Paris jazz clubs and began playing electric guitar (often a Selmer fitted with an electric pickup), despite his initial hesitation towards the instrument. His final recordings made with his "Nouvelle Quintette" in the last few months of his life show him moving in a new musical direction; he had assimilated the vocabulary of bebop and fused it with his own melodic style.[24]
While walking from the Avon railway station after playing in a Paris club he collapsed outside his house from a brain hemorrhage.[25] It was a Saturday and it took a full day for a doctor to arrive[26] and Reinhardt was declared dead on arrival at the hospital in Fontainebleau at age 43.
Family[link]
Reinhardt's second son, Babik, was a guitarist in the contemporary jazz style. His first son, Lousson, was more of a traditionalist, but followed the Romani lifestyle and rarely performed in public. Reinhardt's brother Joseph had initially sworn to abandon music on hearing of Reinhardt's death, but was persuaded to start performing and recording again. Joseph's son Markus is a gypsy violinist. There is now a third generation of direct descendants: Reinhardt's grandson (by his son Babik), David Reinhardt, leads his own trio; his grandson by Lousson, Dallas Baumgartner, is a guitarist who follows in his father's footsteps by traveling and keeping a low public profile.
Django had a cousin, Schnuckenack Reinhardt[27], who was a violinist. Schnukenack lived in Germany, and the two never met. Many of his descendants are also involved in gypsy music, such as his grandson Lulo Reinhardt.
Legacy[link]
Main article: Gypsy jazz
For about a decade after Reinhardt's death, interest in his musical style was minimal, with the fifties seeing bebop superseding swing in jazz, the rise of rock and roll, and electric instruments taking over from acoustic ones in popular music. Reinhardt's friends and sidemen Pierre Ferret and his brothers continued to perform their own version of gypsy swing.
There was a revival of interest in Reinhardt's music from the mid sixties, with acoustic music having become popular through the folk movement. Several of Reinhardt's near-contemporaries recorded for the first time in the sixties and seventies, for instance Paul "Tchan Tchou" Vidal
In 1973 Stéphane Grappelli formed a successful Quintette-style band with British guitarists Diz Disley and Denny Wright. Grappelli would go on to form many other musical partnerships, including John Etheridge, Nigel Kennedy and David Grisman. He was also to acquire his own emulators, for instance Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis.
New generations began to emerge, for instance, Jimmy and Stochelo Rosenberg and their relatives from the Netherlands. Another musical clan is the Reinhardt brothers and cousins from Germany, distant relatives of Reinhardt's. Boulou Ferré, son of "Matelot" Ferret, was a child prodigy who entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 13, and studied under Olivier Messiaen. He continues to perform, with his brother Elios, and can mix bebop and even classical music with gypsy swing. Biréli Lagrène and Angelo Debarre were other prodigies.
Most of the above-mentioned are Roma who learned music by the 'gypsy method', involving intense practice, direct imitation of older musicians (often family members) and playing by ear, with little formal musical study (or, indeed, formal education of any kind). Since about the late 1970s, study materials of a more conventional kind such as workshops, books and videos have become available, allowing musicians worldwide to master the style.
An early non-Roma gypsy-style guitarist was René Didi Duprat (b. 1926). Contemporary ones include John Jorgenson, Jon Larsen (and his Hot Club de Norvège, established 1979), Joscho Stephan, Andreas Öberg, Frank Vignola, George Cole, Stephane Wrembel and Reynold Philipsek. Their music is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Gadjo jazz", where Gadjo is the Romani term for a non-Romani.[citation needed] Young players such as Adrien Moignard and Gwenole Cahue represent the rising generation. Another sign of the rising popularity of gypsy jazz is the increasing number of festivals, such as the Samois-sur-Seine festival (started about 1980), and the various DjangoFests held in the USA.
Reinhardt in popular culture[link]
Reinhardt has been portrayed in several films, such as in the opening sequence of the 2003 animated film Les Triplettes de Belleville. The third and fourth fingers of the cartoon Reinhardt are considerably smaller than the fingers used to play the guitar. Reinhardt's legacy dominates in Woody Allen's 1999 Sweet and Lowdown. This spoof biopic focuses on fictional American guitarist Emmet Ray's obsession with Reinhardt, with soundtrack featuring Howard Alden. He is also portrayed by guitarist John Jorgenson in the movie Head in the Clouds.
Reinhardt is the idol of the character Arvid in the movie Swing Kids, where the character's left hand is smashed by a member of the Hitler Jugend, but is inspired by Reinhardt's example to keep playing. Similarly, in real life, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi suffered an industrial accident at 17, where the tips of his right middle and ring fingers were amputated on the last day of his job at a sheet metal factory. His boss, in an effort to encourage Iommi to follow his dream of being a professional guitarist, played a Django Reinhardt record for him for inspiration.[28]
Reinhardt's music has been used in the soundtrack of many films, including in The Matrix; Rhythm Futur, Daltry Calhoun, Metroland, Chocolat, The Aviator, Alex and the Gypsy, Kate and Leopold and Gattaca; the score for Louis Malle's 1974 movie, Lacombe Lucien; the background for the Steve Martin movie L.A. Story; and the background for a number of Woody Allen movies, including Stardust Memories. (MnHe also appeared as a character in Allen's Sweet and Lowdown. Reinhardt's music has also been featured in the soundtracks of several video games, such as the 2002 game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia II[29] and several times in the 2007 game BioShock. Notably, not only was Reinhardt's music used in the 1978 film King of the Gypsies, his long-time friend and violinist Stéphane Grappelli appeared in the film in a cameo performing as part of one of the gypsy bands.
In the Martin Scorsese film, Hugo, 2011, a character who appears to be, and is credited as, Reinhardt plays guitar in a combo in the station cafe and a closeup shows him making chords without the use of his 3rd and 4th fingers. Other Paris artistic notables of the day are depicted as well.
Reinhardt has been the subject of several songs, most notably "Django" (1954), a gypsy-flavoured piece that jazz pianist John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet wrote in honour of Reinhardt; numerous versions of the song have been recorded, including one on the 1973 Lindsey Buckingham/Stevie Nicks self-titled debut album; it also appears on Joe Bonamassa's 2006 LP You & Me. The lyrics of the Norwegian song "Tanta til Beate" by Lillebjørn Nilsen mentions Reinhardt several times.
He is mentioned in Jump Little Children's song "Mexico": "I won't let you leave, not with all my Django, Emmylou and Steve".
In the novel Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds, the characters Wendell Floyd and André Custine mention having played music with Reinhardt.
At the end of the 2009 NCIS episode "Hide and Seek," Dr. Mallard mentions that Agent McGee's prized autographed Django Reinhardt album "Crazy Rhythm" was mysteriously destroyed.
In 2010 the French and Belgian Google homepages displayed a logo commemorating the centenary of his birthday on 23 January 2010.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actors Alexander Siddig and Nana Visitor named their son after Reinhardt.
Reinhardt is loosely suggested as the main character in the music video for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Brian Setzer.[citation needed]
The Django web framework is named after him, as is version 3.1 of the blog software WordPress.[30]
"Twango", a track on Duane Eddy's album Road Trip, is a tribute to Reinhardt.
"Tango For Django", a track on Robbie Robertson's album How To Become Clairvoyant, is a tribute.
The Belgian government issued a commemorative coin in 92.5% sterling silver in 2010 coinciding with his 100th birth anniversary. It is a silver 10 Euro coin with a color image of Django Reinhardt on the reverse side.[31]
Influence[link]
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Many guitar players, and musicians, have expressed admiration for Django Reinhardt, or have cited him as a major influence. These include British rock guitarists Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton, all three of whom are regularly listed by publications such as Rolling Stone or Guitar Player Magazine as being within the top 10 greatest or most influential guitar players (often with Reinhardt, himself). In fact, Jeff Beck has described Reinhardt as "By far the most astonishing guitar player ever..." and "...quite superhuman..." [1] Other notable guitar players influenced by Reinhardt, include Bob Dunn, Leon McAuliffe, Jimmy McCulloch, NWOAHM guitarist Synyster Gates (Brian Haner Jr.) of Avenged Sevenfold, classical guitarist Julian Bream; country artist Chet Atkins, who placed Reinhardt #1 on a list of the ten most influential guitarists of the 20th century (and himself fifth); Latinrocker Carlos Santana; blues legend B.B. King; Pete Townshend of The Who; Australian acoustic guitar player Tommy Emmanuel; The Wiggles' Murray Cook; Pierre Bensusan; Phish's Trey Anastasio; The Libertines' Carl Barat, Shawn Lane; Hank Marvin; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Derek Trucks; Mark Knopfler; Les Paul; Joe Pass; Peter Frampton; Denny Laine; Bill Nelson; Jon Larsen; Steve Howe; Charlie Christian; Frank Vignola; Barney Kessel; George Benson; Wes Montgomery; Martin Taylor; Michael Angelo Batio; Richard Thompson; Robert Fripp; René Thomas; and Jeff Martin. Willie Nelson wore a Django Reinhardt T-shirt on tour in Europe in 2002, stating in an interview that he admired Reinhardt's music and ability. Willie pointed out how Reinhardt's Hot Club quintet paralleled the hot jazz & country fiddle sound of 1930's Western Swing bands Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies and Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.[citation needed] As well as individual guitarist Django's music has inspired numerous groups to form, including countless "Hot Clubs" as well as more diverse groups such as Swing Je T'aime, and the David Grisman Quintet.
Jose Feliciano attributes his unique style to, in part, that of Reinhardt's. In 2009 he composed an album inspired by those musical influences and entitled it Djangoisms.[citation needed]
Cuban composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer composed Variations on a Theme of Django Reinhardt for solo guitar (1984). It is based on Nuages, by Reinhardt.
The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, both of whom lost fingers in accidents, were particularly inspired by Reinhardt's ability to become an accomplished guitar player/musician, despite the diminished use of his own permanently injured hand following an accident. Jerry Garcia as quoted in June 1985 in Frets Magazine ; "His technique is awesome! Even today, nobody has really come to the state that he was playing at. As good as players are, they haven’t gotten to where he is. There’s a lot of guys that play fast and a lot of guys that play clean, and the guitar has come a long way as far as speed and clarity go, but nobody plays with the whole fullness of expression that Django has. I mean, the combination of incredible speed – all the speed you could possibly want – but also the thing of every note have a specific personality. You don’t hear it. I really haven’t heard it anywhere but with Django".
A number of musicians have even named their sons Django in honour of, or respect for, Reinhardt. They include Dawelie Reinhardt, David Crosby, former Slade singer Noddy Holder, Jerry Jeff Walker, Richard Durrant, as well as actors Nana Visitor, Alexander Siddig and Raphael Sbarge. Jazz musician Django Bates and singer-songwriter Django Haskins were also named after him.
Songs written in Reinhardt's honour include "Django," an instrumental guitar piece by renowned blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa. The piece was influenced by the violin introduction of "Vous et Moi" (Blues et Mineur 1942, Brussels) where Reinhardt himself played the violin. Vous et Moi (You and Me) became the title of Bonamassa's sixth album where the track first appeared in 2006. Slightly longer live versions appear on LIVE...From Nowhere In Particular (2009), and in DVD from the 4 May concert at Royal Albert Hall. "Django," composed by John Lewis, which has become a jazz standard performed by musicians such as Miles Davis. The Modern Jazz Quartet titled one of their albums Django in honour of him. The Allman Brothers Band song "Jessica" was written by Dickey Betts in tribute to Reinhardt — he wanted to write a song that could be played using only two fingers. This aspect of the artist's work also motivated Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who was inspired by Reinhardt to keep playing guitar after a factory accident that cost him two fingertips. Composer Jon Larsen has composed several crossover concerts featuring Reinhardt-inspired music together with symphonic arrangements, most famous are "White Night Stories" (2002) and "Vertavo" (1996).
Not only did Reinhardt put his stamp upon jazz, his "hot" string band music also had an impact upon the parallel development of Texas's western swing string bands, which eventually fed into the wellspring of what is now called country music.[citation needed]
In 2005, Django Reinhardt took 66th place in the election of The Greatest Belgian (De Grootste Belg) in Flanders and 76th place in the Walloon version of the same competition Le plus grand Belge.
Discography[link]
- 1945 Paris 1945
- 1947 Ellingtonia – with the Rex Stewart Band – Dial 215
- 1949 Djangology
- 1951 Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club Quintet
- 1951 At Club St. Germain
- 1953 Django Reinhardt et Ses Rythmes
- 1954 The Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt
- 1955 Django's Guitar
- 1959 Django Reinhardt and His Rhythm
- 1980 Routes to Django Reinhardt
- 1991 Django Reinhardt - Pêche à la Mouche: The Great Blue Star Sessions 1947/1953
- 1996 Imagine
- 1997 Django Reinhardt: Nuages with Coleman Hawkins
- 1998 The Complete Django Reinhardt HMV Sessions
- 2000 The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order (5 CD boxed set)
- 2001 All Star Sessions
- 2001 Jazz in Paris: Swing 39
- 2002 Djangology (remastered) (recorded in 1948, discovered, remastered and released by Bluebird Records)
- 2003 Jazz in Paris: Nuages
- 2003 Jazz in Paris: Nuits de Saint-Germain des-Prés
- 2004 Le Génie Vagabond
- 2005 Djangology (Bluebird)
- 2008 Django on the Radio (radio broadcasts, 1945–1953)
- At least eight compilations have also been released.
See also[link]
References[link]
- ↑ Jurek, Thom. Allmusic. "The Hot Jazz: Le Hot Club De France, Vols. 1-4". http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-hot-jazz-le-hot-club-de-france-vols-1-4-r531911/review Allmusic.. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ↑ His official forename was not "Jean-Baptiste" as often cited. The name on his birth certificate is "Reinhardt, Jean". His biographer Michael Dregni states that "Jean Reinhardt" is the name used on all official documents. Dregni, Michael (2004). Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend. Oxford University Press. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0-19-516752-X.
- ↑ Dregni, Michael (2004). Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend. Oxford University Press. pp. 1, 5. ISBN 0-19-516752-X.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. p. 14. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Dregni, Michael (2008). Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing. Oxford University Press. pp. 46–50. ISBN 978-0-19-531192-1.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. pp. 43–44. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. pp. 31–35. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ "Lousson Reinhardt". Gypsy Jazz Encyclopedia. http://www.hotclub.co.uk/gypsyworld/index.php?title=Lousson_Reinhardt. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. p. 50. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. p. 26. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Dregni, Michael (2006). Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz. Speck Press. pp. 45–59. ISBN 978-1-933108-10-0.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. pp. 64–66. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Rousseau, François. Django Monteal. "Welcome". http://www.djangomontreal.com/Django_Montreal/Welcome.html Django Monteal.. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. pp. 98–99. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Sharp, Fred. The Django Reinhardt Swing Page. "Babik Reinhardt". http://www.hotclub.co.uk/html/babik.html The Django Reinhardt Swing Page.. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ↑ Kington, Miles. BBC. "Playing a Dangerous Game: Django, Jazz and the Nazis". http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/djangoreinhardt.shtml BBC.. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ↑ Fackler, Guido. Music and the Holocaust. "Jazz Under the Nazis". http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/third-reich/jazz-under-the-nazis/ Music and the Holocaust.. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. p. 138. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. p. 141. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. pp. 145–160. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Chester, Paul Vernon. Manouche Maestro. "Django in Rome: The 1949-50 Sessions". http://www.paulvernonchester.com/DjangoInRome.htm Manouche Maestro.. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ↑ Givan, Benjamin (2010). The Music of Django Reinhardt. University of Michigan Press. pp. 158–94. ISBN 978-0-472-03408-6.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. p. 160. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Delaunay, Charles (1961). Django Reinhardt. Da Capo Press. p. 161. ISBN 0-306-80171-X.
- ↑ Schnuckenack Reinhardt (German language)
- ↑ Iommi, Tony (1997). "Never Say Die: Overcoming overwhelming odds, and the right way to play 'Paranoid'." GuitarWorld, August, 1997.
- ↑ The MAFIA II full song list
- ↑ http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.1
- ↑ http://www.coin-database.com/coins/10-euro-100-birthday-of-of-django-reinhardt-belgium-2010.html
External links[link]
- Hotclublinks.com
- Djangopedia
- All About Django Reinhardt
- Manouche Maestro by Paul Vernon Chester
- Django by Michael Dregni
- Gypsy Jazz Encyclopedia
- Django: the Life and Times of a Gypsy Legend by Michael Dregni
- The Genius of Django Reinhadt 1/5 (documentary)
- Transcriptions
- King of the Gypsies at the Internet Movie Database
- Full collection of "Django Reinhardt for band in a Box"
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| Short description | composer, jazz guitarist |
| Date of birth | 23 January 1910 |
| Place of birth | Liberchies, Belgium |
| Date of death | 16 May 1953 |
| Place of death | Avon, Seine-et-Marne, France |
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| Birth name | Charles Parker, Jr. |
| Also known as | Bird, Yardbird, Zoizeau (in France)[1] |
| Born | (1920-08-29)August 29, 1920 Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | March 12, 1955(1955-03-12) (aged 34) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, bebop |
| Occupations | Saxophonist, composer |
| Instruments | Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone |
| Years active | 1937–1955 |
| Labels | Savoy, Dial, Verve |
| Website | www.cmgww.com/music/parker/ |
| Notable instruments | |
| Buescher, Conn, King and Grafton alto saxophones | |
Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird,[2] was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Parker acquired the nickname "Yardbird" early in his career[3] and the shortened form, "Bird", which continued to be used for the rest of his life, inspiring the titles of a number of Parker compositions, such as "Yardbird Suite", "Ornithology", "Bird Gets the Worm", and "Bird of Paradise."
Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop[4], a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and improvisation. Parker introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas, including rapidly passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. His tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber. Many Parker recordings demonstrate virtuosic technique and complex melodic lines, combining jazz with other musical genres, including blues, Latin, and classical.
Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual, rather than an entertainer.
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Biography[link]
Childhood[link]
Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, the only child of Charles and Addie Parker. Parker attended Lincoln High School.[5] He enrolled in September 1934 and withdrew in December 1935, just before joining the local Musicians Union.
Parker began playing the saxophone at age 11, and at age 14 joined his school's band using a rented school instrument. His father, Charles, was often absent but provided some musical influence; he was a pianist, dancer and singer on the T.O.B.A. circuit. He later became a Pullman waiter or chef on the railways. Parker's mother Addie worked nights at the local Western Union office. His biggest influence at that time was a young trombone player who taught him the basics of improvisation[citation needed].
Early career[link]
In the late thirties Parker began to practice diligently. During this period he mastered improvisation and developed some of the ideas that led to bebop. In an interview with Paul Desmond, he said that he spent 3–4 years practicing up to 15 hours a day.[6]
Bands led by Count Basie and Bennie Moten undoubtedly influenced Parker. He played with local bands in jazz clubs around Kansas City, Missouri, where he perfected his technique, with the assistance of Buster Smith, whose dynamic transitions to double and triple time influenced Parker's developing style.
In 1938, Parker joined pianist Jay McShann's territory band.[7] The band toured nightclubs and other venues of the southwest, as well as Chicago and New York City.[8][9] Parker made his professional recording debut with McShann's band.
As a teenager, Parker developed a morphine addiction while in the hospital, after an automobile accident, and subsequently became addicted to heroin. He continued using heroin throughout his life, which ultimately contributed to his death.
New York City[link]
In 1939 Parker moved to New York City, to pursue a career in music. He held several other jobs as well. He worked for nine dollars a week as a dishwasher at Jimmie's Chicken Shack, where pianist Art Tatum performed[citation needed]
In 1942 Parker left McShann's band and played with Earl Hines for one year, whose band included Dizzy Gillespie, who later played with Parker as a duo. Unfortunately, this period is virtually undocumented, due to the strike of 1942–1943 by the American Federation of Musicians, during which time few recordings were made. Parker joined a group of young musicians, and played in after-hours clubs in Harlem, such as Clark Monroe's Uptown House and Minton's Playhouse. These young iconoclasts included Gillespie, pianist Thelonious Monk, guitarist Charlie Christian, and drummer Kenny Clarke. The beboppers' attitude was summed up in a famous quotation attributed to Monk by Mary Lou Williams: "We wanted a music that they couldn't play"[10] – "they" being the white bandleaders who had usurped and profited from swing music. The group played in venues on 52nd Street, including Three Deuces and The Onyx. While in New York City, Parker studied with his music teacher, Maury Deutsch.
Bebop[link]
According to an interview Parker gave in the 1950s, one night in 1939, he was playing "Cherokee" in a jam session with guitarist William "Biddy" Fleet when he hit upon a method for developing his solos that enabled one of his main musical innovations. He realized that the twelve tones of the chromatic scale can lead melodically to any key, breaking some of the confines of simpler jazz soloing.
Early in its development, this new type of jazz was rejected by many of the established, traditional jazz musicians who disdained their younger counterparts. The beboppers responded by calling these traditionalists "moldy figs". However, some musicians, such as Coleman Hawkins and Benny Goodman, were more positive about its development, and participated in jam sessions and recording dates in the new approach with its adherents.
Because of the two-year Musicians' Union ban of all commercial recordings from 1942 to 1944, much of bebop's early development was not captured for posterity. As a result, it gained limited radio exposure. Bebop musicians had a difficult time gaining widespread recognition. It was not until 1945, when the recording ban was lifted, that Parker's collaborations with Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Bud Powell and others had a substantial effect on the jazz world. One of their first (and greatest) small-group performances together was rediscovered and issued in 2005: a concert in New York's Town Hall on June 22, 1945. Bebop soon gained wider appeal among musicians and fans alike.
On November 26, 1945, Parker led a record date for the Savoy label, marketed as the "greatest Jazz session ever." The tracks recorded during this session include "Ko-Ko" and "Now's the Time".
Shortly afterwards, the Parker/Gillespie band traveled to an unsuccessful engagement at Billy Berg's club in Los Angeles. Most of the group returned to New York, but Parker remained in California, cashing in his return ticket to buy heroin. He experienced great hardship in California, eventually being committed to Camarillo State Mental Hospital for a six-month period.
Addiction[link]
Parker's chronic addiction to heroin caused him to miss gigs and lose work. He frequently resorted to busking on the streets, receiving loans from fellow musicians and admirers, and pawning his saxophones, for drug money. Heroin use was rampant in the jazz scene and the drug could be acquired easily.
Although he produced many brilliant recordings during this period, Parker's behavior became increasingly erratic. Heroin was difficult to obtain when he moved to California, where the drug was less abundant, and Parker began to drink heavily to compensate for it. A recording for the Dial label from July 29, 1946, provides evidence of his condition. Prior to this session, Parker drank a quart of whiskey. According to the liner notes of Charlie Parker on Dial Volume 1, Parker missed most of the first two bars of his first chorus on the track, "Max Making Wax." When he finally did come in, he swayed wildly and once spun all the way around, away from his microphone. On the next tune, "Lover Man", producer Ross Russell physically supported Parker. On "Bebop" (the final track Parker recorded that evening) he begins a solo with a solid first eight bars. On his second eight bars, however, Parker begins to struggle, and a desperate Howard McGhee, the trumpeter on this session, shouts, "Blow!" at Parker. Charles Mingus considered this version of "Lover Man" to be among Parker's greatest recordings, despite its flaws.[11] Nevertheless, Parker hated the recording and never forgave Ross Russell for releasing it. He re-recorded the tune in 1951 for Verve.
When Parker was released from the hospital, he was clean and healthy, and proceeded to do some of the best playing and recording of his career. He converted to Islam in the manner of the Ahmadiyya movement in the US.[12] Before leaving California, he recorded "Relaxin' at Camarillo", in reference to his hospital stay. He returned to New York, resumed his addiction to heroin and recorded dozens of sides for the Savoy and Dial labels, which remain some of the high points of his recorded output. Many of these were with his so-called "classic quintet" including trumpeter Miles Davis and drummer Max Roach.
Charlie Parker with Strings[link]
A longstanding desire of Parker's was to perform with a string section. He was a keen student of classical music, and contemporaries reported he was most interested in the music and formal innovations of Igor Stravinsky, and longed to engage in a project akin to what later became known as Third Stream Music, a new kind of music, incorporating both jazz and classical elements as opposed to merely incorporating a string section into performance of jazz standards. On November 30, 1949, Norman Granz arranged for Parker to record an album of ballads with a mixed group of jazz and chamber orchestra musicians.[13] Six master takes from this session comprised the album Charlie Parker with Strings: "Just Friends", "Everything Happens to Me", "April in Paris", "Summertime", "I Didn't Know What Time It Was", and "If I Should Lose You". The sound of these recordings is rare in Parker's catalog. Parker's improvisations are, in comparison to his usual work, more distilled and economical. His tone is darker and softer than on his small-group recordings, and the majority of his lines are beautiful embellishments on the original melodies rather than harmonically based improvisations. These are among the few recordings Parker made during a brief period when he was able to control his heroin habit, and his sobriety and clarity of mind are evident in his playing. Parker stated that, of his own records, Bird With Strings was his favorite. Although using classical music instrumentation with jazz musicians was not entirely original, this was the first major work where a composer of bebop was matched with a string orchestra.
Jazz at Massey Hall[link]
In 1953, Parker performed at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada, joined by Gillespie, Mingus, Bud Powell and Max Roach. Unfortunately, the concert clashed with a televised heavyweight boxing match between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott, so was poorly attended. Mingus recorded the concert, resulting in the album Jazz at Massey Hall. At this concert, he played a plastic Grafton saxophone[citation needed]. At this point in his career he was experimenting with new sounds and materials. Parker himself explained the purpose of the plastic saxophone in a May 9, 1953 broadcast from Birdland and does so again in subsequent May 1953 broadcast.[citation needed]
Parker is known to have played several saxophones, including the Conn 6M, The Martin Handicraft and Selmer Model 22. Parker is also known to have performed with a King "Super 20" saxophone. Parker's King Super 20 saxophone was made specially for him in 1947.
Death[link]
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Parker's grave at Lincoln Cemetery.
Parker died in the suite of his friend and patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter at the Stanhope Hotel in New York City while watching The Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show on television. The official causes of death were lobar pneumonia and a bleeding ulcer but Parker also had an advanced case of cirrhosis and had suffered a heart attack. The coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker's 34-year-old body to be between 50 and 60 years of age.[14]
Parker had been living since 1950 with Chan Richardson, the mother of his son Baird and his daughter Pree (who died as an infant of cystic fibrosis). He considered Chan his wife; however he never formally married her, nor did he divorce his previous wife, Doris (whom he had married in 1948). This complicated the settling of Parker's inheritance and would ultimately serve to frustrate his wish to be quietly interred in New York City.
It was well known that Parker never wanted to return to Kansas City, even in death.[citation needed] Parker had told Chan that he did not want to be buried in the city of his birth; that New York was his home. Dizzy Gillespie paid for the funeral arrangements[15] and organized a lying-in-state, a Harlem procession officiated by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., as well as a memorial concert, before Parker's body was flown back to Missouri, in accordance with his mother's wishes. Parker was buried at Lincoln Cemetery in Missouri, in a hamlet known as Blue Summit.
Parker's estate is managed by CMG Worldwide.
Music[link]
Parker's style of composition involved interpolation of original melodies over pre-existing jazz forms and standards, a practice still common in jazz today. Examples include "Ornithology" ("How High The Moon") and "Yardbird Suite", the vocal version of which is called "What Price Love", with lyrics by Parker. The practice was not uncommon prior to bebop; however, it became a signature of the movement as artists began to move away from arranging popular standards and compose their own material.
While tunes such as "Now's The Time", "Billie's Bounce", and "Cool Blues" were based on conventional twelve-bar blues changes, Parker also created a unique version of the 12-bar blues for his tune "Blues for Alice". These unique chords are known popularly as "Bird Changes".[citation needed] Like his solos, some of his compositions are characterized by long, complex melodic lines and a minimum of repetition although he did employ the use of repetition in some tunes, most notably "Now's The Time".
Parker contributed greatly to the modern jazz solo, one in which triplets and pick-up notes were used in unorthodox ways to lead into chord tones, affording the soloist with more freedom to use passing tones, which soloists previously avoided. Parker was admired for his unique style of phrasing and innovative use of rhythm. Via his recordings and the popularity of the posthumously published Charlie Parker Omnibook, Parker's uniquely identifiable style dominated jazz for many years to come.
Discography[link]
Main article: Charlie Parker discography
Awards and recognitions[link]
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"Bird Lives" sculpture by Robert Graham in Kansas City, Missouri
- Grammy Award
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| 1974 | Best Performance By A Soloist | First Recordings! | Jazz | Onyx | Winner |
- Grammy Hall of Fame
Recordings of Charlie Parker were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
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| Year Recorded | Title | Genre | Label | Year Inducted | |
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| 1945 | "Billie's Bounce" | Jazz (Single) | Savoy | 2002 | |
| 1953 | Jazz at Massey Hall | Jazz (Album) | Debut | 1995 | |
| 1946 | "Ornithology" | Jazz (Single) | Dial | 1989 | |
| 1950 | Charlie Parker with Strings | Jazz (Album) | Mercury | 1988 | |
- Inductions
| Year Inducted | Title |
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| 2004 | Jazz at Lincoln Center: Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame |
| 1984 | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 1979 | Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame |
- National Recording Registry
In 2002, the Library of Congress honored his recording "Ko-Ko" (1945) by adding it to the National Recording Registry.
- U.S. Postage Stamp
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| 1995 | 32 cents Commemorative stamp | U.S. Postal Stamps | Photo (Scott #2987)[18] |
Musical tributes[link]
- Lennie Tristano's overdubbed solo piano piece "Requiem" was recorded in tribute to Parker shortly after his death.
- Street musician Moondog wrote his famous "Bird's Lament" in his memory.
- The Californian ensemble Supersax harmonized many of Parker's improvisations for a five-piece saxophone section
- Saxophonist Phil Woods recorded a tribute concert for Parker
- Weather Report's jazz fusion track and highly acclaimed big band standard "Birdland", from the Heavy Weather album (1977), was a dedication by bandleader Joe Zawinul to both Charlie Parker and the New York 52nd Street club itself
- In 2003 various artists including Serj Tankian and Dan the Automator put out Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project. This album created new songs by remixing Charlie Parker's originals.
- The biographical song "Parker's Band" was recorded by Steely Dan on its 1974 album Pretzel Logic.
- The avant-garde trombonist George Lewis recorded Homage to Charles Parker (1979)
- Sparks released the song "(When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing" on their 1994 album Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins
- Duane Allman devised a unique slide guitar technique that enabled him to mimic the sounds of chirping birds, stating in at least one interview that this was his tribute to Parker.
- The Only World by poet Lynda Hull includes the poem "Ornithology" about Charlie Parker.
- Refused included live recordings of Parker at the end of the song "Liberation Frequency" and transitioned it into "The Deadly Rhythm" on the album The Shape of Punk to Come.
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| Location: | 151 Avenue B Manhattan, New York City |
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| Coordinates: | 40°43′36″N 73°58′50″W / 40.72667°N 73.98056°W / 40.72667; -73.98056Coordinates: 40°43′36″N 73°58′50″W / 40.72667°N 73.98056°W / 40.72667; -73.98056 |
| Built: | c.1849 |
| Architectural style: | Gothic Revival |
| Governing body: | private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 94000262 |
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| Added to NRHP: | April 7, 1994[20] |
| Designated NRHP: | April 7, 1994 |
| Designated NYCL: | May 18, 1999[19] |
Charlie Parker Residence[link]
From 1950 to 1954, Parker and his common-law wife, Chan Richardson, lived in the ground floor of the townhouse at 151 Avenue B, across from Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan's East Village. The Gothic Revival building, which was built c.1849,[21] was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994,[22] and was designated a New York City landmark in 1999. Avenue B, between East 7th and 10th Streets, was renamed Charlie Parker Place in 1992.
Other tributes[link]
- The 1957 story "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin features a jazz/blues playing virtuoso who names Bird as the "greatest" jazz musician, whose style he hopes to emulate.
- In 1949, the New York night club Birdland was named in his honor. Three years later, George Shearing wrote "Lullaby of Birdland", named for both Parker and the nightclub.
- A memorial to Parker was dedicated in 1999 in Kansas City at 17th Terrace and The Paseo, near the American Jazz Museum located at 18th and Vine, featuring a 10-foot (3 m) tall bronze head sculpted by Robert Graham.
- The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival is a free two-day music festival that takes place every summer on the last weekend of August in Manhattan, New York City, at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem and Tompkins Square Park in the Lower East Side, sponsored by the non-profit organization City Parks Foundation. The festival marked its 17th anniversary in 2009.
- In one of his most famous short story collections, Las armas secretas (The Secret Weapons), Julio Cortázar dedicated "El perseguidor" ("The Pursuer") to the memory of Charlie Parker. This piece examines the last days of Johnny, a drug-addict saxophonist, through the eyes of Bruno, his biographer. Some qualify this story as one of Cortazar's masterpieces in the genre.
- A biographical film called Bird, starring Forest Whitaker as Parker and directed by Clint Eastwood, was released in 1988.[23]
- In 1984, legendary modern dance choreographer Alvin Ailey created the piece For Bird – With Love in honor of Parker. The piece chronicles his life, from his early career to his failing health.
- In 2005, the Selmer Paris saxophone manufacturer commissioned a special "Tribute to Bird" alto saxophone, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Charlie Parker (1955–2005).
- Parker's performances of "I Remember You" and "Parker's Mood" (recorded for the Savoy label in 1948, with the Charlie Parker All Stars, comprising Parker on alto sax, Miles Davis on trumpet, John Lewis on piano, Curley Russell on bass, and Max Roach on drums) were selected by Harold Bloom for inclusion on his shortlist of the "twentieth-century American Sublime", the greatest works of American art produced in the 20th century. A vocalese version of "Parker's Mood" was a popular success for King Pleasure.
- The Oris Watch Company created a limited edition timepiece in Charlie Parker's name. The watch features the word "bird" at the 4 o'clock hour, in honor of Parker's nickname and signifying "Jazz, until 4 in the morning".
- Jean-Michel Basquiat created many pieces to honour Charlie Parker, including Charles the First, CPRKR and Discography I.
- In 1995, Live Bird, a one-man play about Charlie Parker, written and performed by actor/saxophonist Jeff Robinson, made its premier at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Charlie Watts, drummer for the Rolling Stones, wrote a children's book entitled Ode to a High Flying Bird as a tribute to Parker. Watts has cited Parker as a major influence in his life as a young man learning to play jazz.
Notes[link]
- ↑ Ross Russell, Bird, La vie de Charlie Parker, translation by Mimi Perrin, preface by Chan Parker, Paris: Le livre de poche, 1980.
- ↑ Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
- ↑ "there are many contradictory stories of the name's origin". Birdlives.co.uk. http://www.birdlives.co.uk/content/view/12/14. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
- ↑ "Charlie Parker". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_parker_charlie.htm. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
- ↑ Woideck, Carl (October 1998). Charlie Parker: His Music and Life. Michigan American Music Series. University of Michigan Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-472-08555-2. http://books.google.de/books?id=yuubqYxkRfYC&pg=PA4&dq=charlie+parker+high+school&hl=de&ei=adtsTcOVKcPMswag64G5BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=charlie%20parker%20high%20school&f=false. "In Lincoln High School he was the pride of his teachers..."
- ↑ "Paul Desmond interviews Charlie Parker". puredesmond.ca. http://www.puredesmond.ca/pdbird.htm. Retrieved March 1, 2011.
- ↑ Woideck, Carl (October 1998). Charlie Parker: His Music and Life. Michigan American Music Series. University of Michigan Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-472-08555-2. http://books.google.de/books?id=yuubqYxkRfYC&pg=PA18&dq=charlie+parker+1938+Jay+McShann&hl=de&ei=Lt1sTeukIomPswaFj8S9BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=charlie%20parker%201938%20Jay%20McShann&f=false.
- ↑ "pbs.org". pbs.org. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_parker_charlie.htm. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
- ↑ amb.cult.bg[dead link]
- ↑ Blakely, Johanna (April 2010). Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture (TEDxUSC 2010). TEDTalks. Event occurs at 7:45–8:00. http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html. Retrieved December 3, 2010.
- ↑ Gitler, Ira (2001). The Masters of Bebop: A Listener's Guide. Da Capo Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-306-81009-3. "Charles Mingus once chose it when asked to name his favorite Parker recordings. 'I like all,' he said, 'none more than the other, but I'd have to pick Lover Man for the feeling he had then and his ability to express that feeling.'"
- ↑ Latif, Sultan Abdul. "When Nations Gather". pg. 259 ISBN 0-9640118-1-6
- ↑ Ross Russell Bird Lives! The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker, 1973, New York: Charterhouse, p273. ISBN 0-306-80679-7
- ↑ Reisner, Robert, ed. (1977). Bird: the Legend of Charlie Parker. New York: Da Capo Press. p. 133.
- ↑ "Ken Burns interviews Chan Parker" (PDF). http://www.pbs.org/jazz/about/pdfs/Parker.pdf. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
- ↑ Grammy Awards search engine[dead link]
- ↑ Grammy Hall of Fame Database[dead link]
- ↑ Richard Tucker. "Charlie Parker: 32 cents Commemorative stamp". Esperstamps.org. http://esperstamps.org/aa36.htm. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
- ↑ "Charlie Parker Residence Designation Report", New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
- ↑ "Parker, Charlie, Residence" on the NRHP database
- ↑ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Postal, Matthew A. (ed. and text); Dolkart, Andrew S. (text). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.) New York:John Wiley and Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1, p.69
- ↑ "Charlie Parker: The Charlie Parker Residence, NYC". Charlieparkerresidence.net. http://www.charlieparkerresidence.net. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
- ↑ Bird at the Internet Movie Database
References[link]
- Aebersold, Jamey, editor (1978). Charlie Parker Omnibook. New York: Michael H. Goldsen.
- Giddins, Gary (1987). Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker. New York: Beech Tree Books, William Morrow. ISBN 0-688-05950-3
- Koch, Lawrence (1999). Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker. Boston, Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55555-384-1
- Parker, Chan (1999). My Life In E-Flat. University Of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-245-9
- Reisner, George (1962). Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker. New York, Bonanza Books.
- Russell, Ross (1973). Bird Lives! The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker. New York:Charterhouse. ISBN 0-306-80679-7
- Woideck, Carl (1998). Charlie Parker: His Music and Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08555-7
- Woideck, Carl, editor (1998). The Charlie Parker Companion: Six Decades of Commentary. New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-864714-9
- Yamaguchi, Masaya, editor (1955). Yardbird Originals. New York: Charles Colin, reprinted 2005.
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| Name | Parker, Charlie |
| Alternative names | Parker, Charles "Bird", Jr. |
| Short description | Saxophonist, Composer |
| Date of birth | August 29, 1920 |
| Place of birth | Kansas City, Kansas |
| Date of death | March 12, 1955 |
| Place of death | New York City, New York |
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| Jobim in early 1994 while taking a break from recording Antonio Brasileiro. Jobim in early 1994 while taking a break from recording Antonio Brasileiro. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim |
| Also known as | Antônio Carlos Jobim, Tom Jobim, Tom do Vinícius |
| Born | (1927-01-25)January 25, 1927 |
| Origin | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Died | December 8, 1994(1994-12-08) (aged 67) |
| Genres | Bossa Nova MPB |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, songwriter, singer. |
| Instruments | piano, guitar, flute |
| Years active | 1956–1994 |
| Labels | Verve, Warner Bros., Elenco, A&M, CTI, MCA, Philips, Decca, Sony |
| Associated acts | Vinícius de Moraes, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Frank Sinatra, Gal Costa |
| Website | www.tomjobim.com.br |
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 – December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtõ ʒoˈbĩ]), was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally.
Widely known as the composer of "The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema), one of the most recorded songs of all time, Jobim has left a large number of songs that are today included in the standard Jazz and Pop repertoires.
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Early life[link]
Antonio Carlos Jobim was born in the middle-class district of Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro. His father Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, April 23, 1889 - July 19, 1935) was a writer, diplomat, professor and journalist. He came from a prominent family, being the great-grand nephew of José Martins da Cruz Jobim,[1] senator, privy councillor and physician of Emperor Dom Pedro II. While studying medicine in Europe, José Martins added Jobim to his last name, paying homage to the village where his family came from in Portugal, the parish of Santa Cruz de Jovim, Porto.[2][3]
When Antonio was still an infant, his parents separated and his mother, Nilza Brasileiro de Almeida (c. 1910 - November 17, 1989), moved with her children (Antonio Carlos and his sister Helena Isaura, born February 23, 1931) to Ipanema, the beachside neighborhood the composer would later celebrate in his songs. In 1935, when the elder Jobim died, Nilza married Celso da Frota Pessoa (died February 2, 1979), who would encourage his stepson's career. He was the one that gave Jobim his first piano. As a young man of limited means, Jobim earned his living by playing in nightclubs and bars and later as an arranger for a recording label, before starting to achieve success as a composer.
Jobim's musical roots were planted firmly in the work of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. Among his teachers were Lúcia Branco, and, from 1941 on, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. Jobim was also influenced by the French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and by jazz. Among many themes, his lyrics talked about love, self discovery, betrayal, joy and especially about the birds and natural wonders of Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" forest, characters of Brazilian folklore like Matita Pereira (Saci Pererê), and his home city of Rio de Janeiro.
Career[link]
Jobim became prominent in Brazil when he teamed up with poet and diplomat Vinícius de Moraes to write the music for the play Orfeu de Conceição (1956). The most popular song from the show was "Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você" ("If everyone were like you"). Later, when the play was turned into a film, producer Sacha Gordine did not want to use any of the existing music from the play. Gordine asked de Moraes and Jobim for a new score for the film Black Orpheus (1959). Moraes was at the time away in Montevideo, Uruguay, working for the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and so he and Jobim were only able to write three songs, primarily over the telephone ("A Felicidade", "Frevo",and "O Nosso Amor"). This collaboration proved successful, and Vinicius went on to pen the lyrics to some of Jobim's most popular songs.
A key event in making Jobim's music known in the English speaking world was his collaboration with the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, João Gilberto and Gilberto's wife at the time, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted in two albums, Getz/Gilberto (1963) and Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 (1964). The release of Getz/Gilberto created a bossa nova craze in the United States, and subsequently internationally. Getz had previously recorded Jazz Samba with Charlie Byrd (1962), and Jazz Samba Encore! with Luiz Bonfá (1964). Jobim wrote many of the songs on Getz/Gilberto, which became one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on "The Girl from Ipanema" and "Corcovado", into an international sensation. At the Grammy Awards of 1965 Getz/Gilberto won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group and the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" won the award for Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Personal life[link]
Jobim was married to Thereza Otero Hermanny on October 15, 1949 and had two children with her: Paulo Jobim (born 1950), an architect and musician, married and father of Daniel Jobim and Dora Jobim (born 1976); and Elizabeth "Beth" Jobim (born 1957), a painter. Jobim and Otero divorced in 1978. On April 30, 1986 he married 29-year old photographer Ana Beatriz Lontra, with whom he had two more children: João Francisco Jobim (1979–1998) and Maria Luiza Helena Jobim (born 1987). His grandson Daniel Jobim (born 1973), Paulo's son, followed his grandfather's steps, becoming a pianist and composer.
Death[link]
In early 1994, after finishing his album Antonio Brasileiro, Jobim complained to his doctor, Roberto Hugo Costa Lima, of urinary problems, which included urinating blood. A bladder tumor was detected, but Jobim postponed the recommended immediate surgery for several months, while he tried spiritual treatment with a Brazilian medium and started working with his album Tom Jobim. After receiving a message allegedly coming from Frederik von Stein, a dead German doctor, that recommended not having the surgery, Jobim decided to stop listening to the spiritual guidance and have the surgery instead. He was operated in Mount Sinai Hospital, in New York, on December 2, 1994. On December 8, while recovering from surgery, he had a cardiac arrest caused by a pulmonary embolism and two hours later another cardiac arrest, from which he died.[4] His last words were: "Remember me".[citation needed] He was survived by his children and grandchildren. His last album, Antonio Brasileiro, was released three days after his death.[5]
Jobim's body was flown back to Brazil on December 9, 1994 and was given a private funeral on December 13, 1994 in Rio de Janeiro. His family, his friends Miúcha, Edu Lobo, João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto and his close friends came to his funeral.[citation needed] His body lay in state until given a proper burial on December 20, 1994. He is buried in the Cemitério São João Batista in Rio de Janeiro.[6]
Legacy[link]
Jobim is one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century. Many of Jobim's songs are jazz standards. American jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra prominently featured Jobim's songs on their albums Ella Abraça Jobim (1981), and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967), respectively. The 1996 CD Wave: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook included performances of Jobim tunes by Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Toots Thielemans. Jobim was an innovator in the use of sophisticated harmonic structures in popular song. Some of his melodic twists, like the melody insisting on the major seventh of the chord, became common use in Jazz and easy listening music after him.[7] The Brazilian collaborators and interpreters of Jobim's music include João Gilberto (often credited as a co-creator of bossa nova), Chico Buarque, Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Sérgio Mendes, Astrud Gilberto, and Flora Purim. Eumir Deodato and the conductor/composer Claus Ogerman arranged many recordings of Jobim tunes.[8] He won a Lifetime Achievement award at the 54th Grammy Awards.[9]
As a well-deserved posthumous homage, on January 5, 1999 the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro changed the name of Rio's Galeão International Airport , located on Governador Island, to bear the composer's name. Galeão Airport is explicitly mentioned in his composition "Samba do avião."
Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
- 1963: The Composer of Desafinado, Plays
- 1965: The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim
- 1967: Wave
- 1967: A Certain Mr. Jobim
- 1970: Stone Flower
- 1970: Tide
- 1972: Look to the Sky
- 1973: Matita Perê
- 1973: Jobim
- 1974: Elis & Tom (with Elis Regina)
- 1976: Urubu
- 1977: Miúcha & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Vol. 1 (with Miúcha)
- 1979: Miúcha & Antonio Carlos Jobim - Vol. 2 (with Miúcha)
- 1980: Terra Brasilis
- 1981: Edu & Tom (with Edu Lobo)
- 1987: Passarim
- 1987: Inédito
- 1989: Echoes of Rio
- 1994: Miúcha e Tom Jobim (with Miúcha)
- 1994: Antonio Brasileiro
- 1998: Tom Jobim (Brazil only)
Compilations[link]
- 1999: The Best of Tom Jobim
- 2000: The Tom Jobim Sessions (outtakes with various artists)
- 2002: The Outtakes (outtakes as a solo artist)
- 2006: Sinatra-Jobim (outtakes with Frank Sinatra)
- 2009: The Complete Tom Jobim (boxset)
Live albums[link]
- 1977: Gravado ao vivo no Canecão (with Vinicius, Toquinho, Miúcha)
- 1986: Jazzvisions: Rio Revisited (with Gal Costa)
- 1996: Antonio Carlos Jobim and Friends (with Joe Henderson, Shirley Horn, Jon Hendricks, Herbie Hancock, Gonzalo Rubalcaba)
- 2001: Tom Canta Vinicius: Ao Vivo (recorded in 1990)
- 2004: Em Minas Ao Vivo: Piano e Voz (recorded in 1981)
Soundtracks[link]
- 1959: Black Orpheus (Soundtrack)
- 1970: The Adventurers (Soundtrack)
- 1983: Gabriela, Cravo e Canela (Soundtrack)[10]
- 1986: Moments of Play (Soundtrack)[11]
As contributor[link]
- 1958: Canção do Amor Demais – Elizete Cardoso
- 1959: Amor de gente moça – Silvia Telles
- 1959: Chega de Saudade – João Gilberto
- 1959: Por tôda a minha vida – Lenita Bruno
- 1960: O Amor, o Sorriso e a Flor – João Gilberto
- 1965: The Swinger from Rio – Sérgio Mendes
- 1966: Love, Strings and Jobim
- 1995: Abandoned Garden – Michael Franks
With Stan Getz[link]
- 1962: Jazz Samba
- 1963: Getz/Gilberto
- 1963: Jazz Samba Encore!
- 1964: Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2
- 2007: Greatest Hits
With Frank Sinatra[link]
- 1967: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
- 1971: Sinatra & Company
- 1979: Sinatra-Jobim Sessions
- 1994: Duets II
Compositions[link]
- "A Felicidade"
- "Água de Beber"
- "Anos Dourados" (Looks Like December)
- "As Praias Desertas"
- "Águas de Março" (Waters of March)
- "Bonita"
- "Brigas Nuca Mais"
- "Chega de Saudade" (No More Blues)
- "Chovendo na Roseira"
- "Corcovado" (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
- "Desafinado" (Slightly Out of Tune)
- "Dindi"
- "Favela"
- "Fotografia"
- "Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl From Ipanema)
- "Insensatez (How Insensitive)"
- "Inútil Paisagem (If You Never Come to Me)"
- "Look to the Sky"
- "Meditação" (Meditation)
- "O Amor Em Paz" (Once I Loved)
- "Passarim"
- "Sabiá"
- "Samba de Uma Nota Só" (One Note Samba)
- "Samba do Avião"
- "So Danço Samba"
- "Só Tinha De Ser Com Você
- "Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você (Someone to Light Up My Life)"
- "Tema de Amor de Gabriela"
- "Triste"
- "Vivo Sonhando" (Dreamer)
- "Vou te Contar" (Wave)
Concert films[link]
- 2002: Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute (with Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Shirley Horn, Jon Hendricks, Gonzalo Rubalcaba)[12]
- 2007: Antonio Carlos Jobim In Concert
- 2007: Live at Montreal Jazz Festival
- 2009: Tom Jobim: The Waters of March
Notes[link]
- ↑ Programa Roda Viva (TV Cultura), entrevista TOM JOBIM Domingo, 19 de Dezembro de 1993 (PGM0385) Online transcription and video of the interview
- ↑ CORADINI, O. L.: Important families and the professional elite within brazilian medicine. História, Ciências, Saúde—Manguinhos, III (3) 425-466, November 1996-February 1997. Online .pdf
- ↑ SILVA, Innocencio Francisco da Diccionario Bibliographico Portuguez: Applicaveis a Portugal e ao Brasil, Lisboa 1860, pg. 62
- ↑ Cabral, Sergio (2008). Antonio Carlos Jobim - Uma Biografia (1st Edition ed.). São Pulo, Brazil: IBEP Nacional. ISBN 85-7865-011-5
- ↑ "Newsweek Archives". http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NWEC&p_theme=nwec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EC05F4FF4BEE534&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM.
- ↑ FindAGrave.com link to Jobim's burial
- ↑ MacDowell, Joao; The Harmonic Development of Brazilian Song, Rio de Janeiro,1999.
- ↑ Red Bull Music Academy (2005) Eumir Deodato - Boy from Rio Pt. 1. Available from: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/LECTURES.95.0.html?act_session=211. Accessed 6 December 2006.
- ↑ "Diana Ross, Steve Jobs among honorees at Grammy Special Merit Awards ceremony". The Washington Post. February 12, 2012. http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/diana-ross-steve-jobs-among-honorees-at-grammy-special-merit-awards-ceremony/2012/02/12/gIQAbp008Q_story.html.
- ↑ IMDB Soundtrack listing
- ↑ Moments of Play at the danish film institute (in danish)
- ↑ VIEW Video DVD Listing
References[link]
- McGowan, Chris; Pessanha, Ricardo (1998). The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil (2nd edition ed.). Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 1-56639-545-3, ISBN 1-56639-544-5.
- Castro, Ruy (2000). Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World (1st English-Language Edition ed.). Chicago, IL: A Capella Books. ISBN 1-55652-409-9.
- Cabral, Sergio (2008). Antonio Carlos Jobim - Uma Biografia (1st Edition ed.). São Pulo, Brazil: IBEP Nacional. ISBN 85-7865-011-5.
External links[link]
- Nos Bastidores do legendario concerto da bossa nova no Carnegie Hall in 1962
- Jobim Guitar Tab Archives & Song Lyrics Page
- Antônio Carlos Jobim page at The Brazilian Sound
- Antônio Carlos Jobim at Find-A-Grave
- Interview, 1988
- Antônio Carlos Jobim: Clube do Tom
- Remembering Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Tribute to Tom Jobim Website
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