HAWKINS, COLEMAN (BEAN
or HAWK
). Jazz saxophonist ( in St. Joseph, Missouri; in New York, New York). He studied piano with his mother, an organist, when he was five years old; at seven he studied cello, and at nine he began playing tenor saxophone. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of St. Joseph, Missouri, and Kansas City, Missouri; at Washburn College in Topeka, Kansas; and through private study in Chicago, Illinois. He began...