MUSI 1560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum
5 Jan 2017
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He had a powerful and original style. Largely responsible for the popularity of the tenor saxophone as a jazz. Early recordings made use of the characteristic technique of the day slap. Later he developed a more legato approach. He absorbed musical ideas from many non saxophones. 1926 hawkins was also being impressed by the harmonic ideas of art tatum. In 1926 he develops question-and-answer phrasing after the fashion of. Armstrong along with his own trills and triplet ornaments. St. louis shuffle had highly technical patterns and chromatic sequences are introduced on the third take of the shuffle. He recorded a solo on one hour. Hawkins style = richness of ideas, sensitive tone, and rhythmic flexibility. He mingled speech like rubato phrases with moments in double time. His playing is characterized by intense emotional conviction. Solo on can you take it (1933) His return to playing on the beat demonstrates his increasing ability to improvise a memorable and logically constructed melodies.
