Dream Catcher by Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins, nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", 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".

Hawkins' virtuosic, arpeggiated approach to improvisation, with his characteristic rich, emotional, and vibrato-laden tonal style, was the main influence on a generation of tenor players that included Chu Berry, Charlie Barnet, Tex Beneke, Ben Webster, Vido Musso, Herschel Evans, Buddy Tate, and Don Byas, and through them the later tenormen, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ike Quebec, Al Sears, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson.

While Hawkins became known with swing music during the big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.

He denied being first on tenor and noted his contemporaries Happy Caldwell, Stump Evans, and Prince Robinson, although he was the first to tailor his method of improvisation to the saxophone rather than imitate the techniques of the clarinet.

"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."
- Lester Young

"When I heard Hawk, I learned to play ballads."
- Miles Davis

Tracklist

1.	While We're Young	3:36

2.	An Embrace to Bonfá	4:52

3.	Mighty Like a Rose	4:04

4.	The Duck	4:10

5.	For You, for Me, for Evermore	6:12

6.	One Note Samba	6:00

7.	Then I'll Be Tired of You	5:12

8.	I Remember You	3:59

9.	Poor Butterfly	6:10

10.	Samba Para Bean	5:28

11.	Trouble Is a Man	5:31

12.	Desafinado	5:49

13.	Stumpy Bossa Nova	2:32

14.	I'll Get By	6:41

15.	I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover	2:53

16.	At Dawning	4:43

Credits

released August 1, 2025

Coleman Hawkins - tenor sax
Tommy Flanagan piano, claves
Howard Collins - guitar
Barry Galbraith - guitar
Major Holley - bass
Wendell Marshall - bass
Willie Rodriguez - percussion
Eddie Locke - drums, percussion
Osie Johnson - drums

and others

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