Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins
(1904-69) numbers among the jazz greats. In the first of six programmes, the composer Ron Geesin looks at Hawks's career from his early days in New York with the Fletcher
Henderson Band to his regular tours of Europe with his own groups and his greatest hit, Body and Soul. After this initial overview of Hawkins's life and career, each subsequent programme will trace a particular theme: the composer, the rhapsodist, the hunter, the populist ... Producer Derek Drescher