Bean

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Bean is the famous jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a pioneering tenor sax player whose rich tone and improvisational style helped define early jazz.

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instanceOf American jazz saxophonist
human
jazz musician
tenor saxophonist
activeYearsEnd 1969
activeYearsStart 1920
associatedAct Duke Ellington
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
Max Roach
Roy Eldridge
Thelonious Monk
birthName Coleman Randolph Hawkins
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1904-11-21
dateOfDeath 1969-05-19
education studied music theory and harmony
genre bebop
jazz
swing
influenced Ben Webster
Dexter Gordon
John Coltrane
Lester Young
Sonny Rollins
instrument saxophone
tenor saxophone
legacy helped establish tenor saxophone as a leading jazz instrument
movement bebop era
swing era
name Coleman Hawkins
nickname Bean
The Hawk
surface form: Hawk
notableFor pioneering use of tenor saxophone in jazz
rich tone and advanced improvisational style
notableRecording Body and Soul
surface form: Body and Soul (1939 recording)
notableWork Body and Soul
occupation bandleader
composer
musician
placeOfBirth St. Joseph, Missouri
surface form: Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States
placeOfDeath New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
recordLabel Bluebird Records
Impulse! Records
RCA Victor
Verve Records
residence New York City
styleCharacteristic full-bodied, vibrato-rich tone
vertical, arpeggio-based improvisation
tour Europe in the 1930s

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Coleman alsoKnownAs Bean
subject surface form: Coleman Hawkins