“The language of jazz is built on small phrases — riffs that pass like coveted currency from one musician and one generation to the next. But every now and then, there comes a moment when that tried-and-true vocabulary no longer serves, and by rejecting it, an artist arrives at a statement that nudges or catapults the music in new directions. Coleman Hawkins' 1939 treatment of ‘Body and Soul’ is one of those great evolutionary leaps. Hawkins, who's been called ‘The Father of the Tenor Saxophone,’ was by all accounts the first to establish the tenor sax as a jazz instrument. ...”
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