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Geoffrey Smith's Jazz

Music: Jazz & Blues

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz - a weekly sequence exploring what makes great jazz great music

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz does exactly what it says on the tin: a weekly selection of tracks through which Geoffrey Smith shares his passion for jazz from a personal perspective

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz: Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Hawkins

31/03/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Coleman Hawkins

Geoffrey Smith celebrates Coleman Hawkins, considered the father of the jazz tenor sax.

Geoffrey Smith celebrates the saxophonist known as the father of the jazz tenor, Coleman Hawkins, a musician who produced many important masterpieces over a 40-year career.

Adolphe Sax may have invented the saxophone, but it was perfected by Coleman Hawkins. In a programme first heard in 2013, Geoffrey Smith celebrates the father of the jazz tenor whose massive tone, potent attack and harmonic daring challenged everyone who came after him, producing a legacy of masterpieces over a forty-year career.

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