About this episode
WKCR presents an annual marathon broadcast celebrating the Coleman Hawkins birthday on November 21. From the 2023 affair, here's a 185 minute long segment. It begins with a brief sample of early 1960's recordings with Duke Ellington, and other mainstream sides. Then the final 149 minutes contains an intensive survey of his career in the period from 1939 through 1944, after his return from Europe. From Body And Soul through the Apollo early bebop date.