Coleman Hawkins playing ‘Indian Summer’ on tenor saxophone.
Joachim E. Berendt said, “there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn” (Berendt, Joachim E (1976). The Jazz Book. Universal Edition.)
Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker
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