Remembering #ColemanHawkins on his birthday along with #BudPowell, #OscarPettiford and #KennyCkarke on a tune most appropriate before Thanksgiving called "Stuffy." #ColemanHawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as writer Joachim E. Berendt explained: "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn." Fellow saxophonist #LesterYoung, known as

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