Tuesday's Testament - Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins

“The saxophone was patented more than a half century before jazz developed but their affinity for each other might be nearly perfect. Potent, like the brass instruments whose ringing bell it shares, yet, sensitive as a clarinet thanks to the way its cane reed responds to changing embouchure, tonguing, breath, and attack, the saxophone can do everything a jazz instrument needs to do.

And no one knew it until Coleman Hawkins showed us how.“

(from the notes to Mosaic’s recording collection titled: Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947 -#251)