Episode 83: Giants of Jazz-Hawkins,Webster,Basie,Teagarden,etc.

Part 3 of Time-Life’s Giant’s of Jazz series, this time featuring Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Jelly Roll Morton, Jack Teagarden, Ben Webster, plus Canadian born orchestrator Gil Evans. You’ll also hear Dizzy Gillespie’s first recorded jazz solo.  And How Art Tatum, at age 16, changed the course of jazz using Coleman Hawkins as a vehicle.  And a very famous jazz tune that was originally called “Blue Balls”.