"Coleman Hawkins fills the room with big deep bursting sounds, conjugating the blues with rhapsodic sweep and fervor he so loves in the opera singers whose recordings he plays by the hour at home." ....Nat Hentoff, writer "Coleman Hawkins brought the tenor saxophone to center stage with a direct, swaggering, and robust approach to melodic interpretation. He was the dominant figure in jazz until Lester Young arrived on the Kansas City scene in the ’30s." .....Doug Ramsey, writer