Birth Place: Saint Joseph, Missouri, U.S.A.

Birth Name: Coleman Hawkins

Member of:
Jesse Stone and his Blues Serenaders
Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Red McKenzie's Mound City Blue Blowers
Jack Hylton and His Orchestra

Associated Acts:
Wilbur Sweatman
Fletcher Henderson
Benny Carter
Django Reinhardt
Stephane Grappelli
Thelonious Monk
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
Max Roach
J.J. Johnson
Fats Navarro
Roy Eldridge
Eric Dolphy
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington
Sonny Rollins
Kenny Burrell 
Ben Webster

Education:
Topeka High School
Washburn College in Topeka

Instruments:
Tenor Saxophone

Genres:
Jazz
Swing

Did You Know: He died on May 19th, 1969 in New York, New York, U.S.A.