Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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38957269 | Play | Tuxedo Junction | 03:15 Tools | |
38957270 | Play | Tuxedo Junction - 1989 Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
38957271 | Play | After Hours | 00:00 Tools | |
38957272 | Play | Tippin' In | 00:00 Tools | |
38957273 | Play | Swing Out - Remastered 1989 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957291 | Play | Tuxedo Junction (1989 Remastered) | 00:00 Tools | |
38957274 | Play | Rockin' Rollers' Jubilee (Remastered 1989) | 00:00 Tools | |
38957276 | Play | Soft Winds | 00:00 Tools | |
38957277 | Play | Rockin' Rollers' Jubilee | 00:00 Tools | |
38957275 | Play | Caldonia | 00:00 Tools | |
38957279 | Play | After Hours - Digitally Mastered - September 1991 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957284 | Play | Tippin' In - Digitally Mastered - September 1991 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957278 | Play | Don't Cry Baby - Digitally Mastered - September 1991 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957280 | Play | Easy Rider - Remastered 1989 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957285 | Play | Bicycle Bounce | 00:00 Tools | |
38957282 | Play | Don't Cry Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
38957283 | Play | Soft Winds - Digitally Mastered - September 1991 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957281 | Play | Rockin' Rollers' Jubilee - Remastered 1989 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957286 | Play | Sweet Georgia Brown - Digitally Mastered - September 1991 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957288 | Play | Blackout - Digitally Mastered - September 1991 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957287 | Play | Needle Points | 00:00 Tools | |
38957289 | Play | Big John's Special | 00:00 Tools | |
38957290 | Play | Bear Mash Blues - Digitally Mastered - September 1991 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957292 | Play | Good Dip | 00:00 Tools | |
38957295 | Play | Uncle Bud | 00:00 Tools | |
38957293 | Play | Gin Mill Special | 00:00 Tools | |
38957327 | Play | Hawk's Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
38957294 | Play | Five O'Clock Whistle | 00:00 Tools | |
38957297 | Play | Riff Time | 00:00 Tools | |
38957296 | Play | Cherry | 00:00 Tools | |
38957309 | Play | Swing Out | 00:00 Tools | |
38957298 | Play | Sneakin' Out | 00:00 Tools | |
38957299 | Play | Nona | 00:00 Tools | |
38957305 | Play | Satan Does The Rhumba | 00:00 Tools | |
38957308 | Play | Song Of The Wanderer | 00:00 Tools | |
38957301 | Play | Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams | 00:00 Tools | |
38957300 | Play | Shower | 00:00 Tools | |
38957318 | Play | Shipyard Ramble | 00:00 Tools | |
38957302 | Play | Lucky Seven (Bill's Tune) | 00:00 Tools | |
38957303 | Play | Gabriel Meets The Duke | 00:00 Tools | |
38957304 | Play | Midnight Stroll | 00:00 Tools | |
38957306 | Play | Needle Points [Album Version] | 00:00 Tools | |
38957310 | Play | Whispering Grass | 00:00 Tools | |
38957307 | Play | Knock Me a Kiss - DJ Wuthe am Grammophon | 00:00 Tools | |
38957311 | Play | The Bear Mash Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38957313 | Play | Holiday for Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
38957314 | Play | Bear Mash Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38957312 | Play | Dolemite | 00:00 Tools | |
38957315 | Play | Closing Theme: One O'Clock Jump | 00:00 Tools | |
38957316 | Play | Country Boy | 00:00 Tools | |
38957317 | Play | Don't Cry, Baby | 00:00 Tools | |
38957319 | Play | Way Down Upon The Swanee River | 00:00 Tools | |
38957323 | Play | Corn Bread | 00:00 Tools | |
38957320 | Play | Sweet Georgia Brown | 00:00 Tools | |
38957324 | Play | Tonight You Belong To Me | 00:00 Tools | |
38957325 | Play | Knock Me a Kiss | 00:00 Tools | |
38957322 | Play | Blue Sea | 00:00 Tools | |
38957321 | Play | Jumpin’ In A Julep Joint | 00:00 Tools | |
38957332 | Play | Jumpin' In A Julep Joint | 00:00 Tools | |
38957326 | Play | Drifting Along | 00:00 Tools | |
38957328 | Play | S'posin | 00:00 Tools | |
38957338 | Play | I Know A Secret | 00:00 Tools | |
38957334 | Play | Swing Out (Remastered 1989) | 00:00 Tools | |
38957330 | Play | No Use Squakin | 00:00 Tools | |
38957346 | Play | Lucky Seven | 00:00 Tools | |
38957333 | Play | Gabriel's Heater | 00:00 Tools | |
38957339 | Play | Uptown Shuffle | 00:00 Tools | |
38957335 | Play | Trippin In | 00:00 Tools | |
38957329 | Play | Until The Real Thing Comes Along | 00:00 Tools | |
38957344 | Play | Night After Night | 00:00 Tools | |
38957341 | Play | Easy Rider | 00:00 Tools | |
38957331 | Play | Limehouse Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
88293955 | Play | No Use Squawkin | 00:00 Tools | |
38957356 | Play | Strictly Swing | 00:00 Tools | |
89981872 | Play | Tippin' In (Digitally Mastered - September 1991) | 00:00 Tools | |
38957351 | Play | Raid The Joint | 00:00 Tools | |
38957340 | Play | Fifteen Years | 00:00 Tools | |
38957336 | Play | Tuxedo junction - 1939 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957358 | Play | Five O'clock Whistle - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
38957337 | Play | Big Wig In The Wigwam - Original | 00:00 Tools | |
38957345 | Play | Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat | 00:00 Tools | |
38957350 | Play | Big Wig In The Wigwam | 00:00 Tools | |
38957347 | Play | Weary Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38957348 | Play | King Porter Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
38957357 | Play | Country Boys | 00:00 Tools | |
89981873 | Play | Soft Winds (Digitally Mastered - September 1991) | 00:00 Tools | |
38957342 | Play | Song Of The Wanderer (Where Shall I Go) | 00:00 Tools | |
89981874 | Play | Midnight Stroll - Remastered 1998 | 00:00 Tools | |
38957343 | Play | Do You Wanna Jump, Chillun? | 00:00 Tools | |
88293956 | Play | No Baby, Nobody But You | 00:00 Tools | |
38957349 | Play | Five O'Clock Whistle - Original | 00:00 Tools | |
88293958 | Play | Rockin' Roller's Jubilee | 00:00 Tools | |
38957352 | Play | Opportunity | 00:00 Tools | |
88293957 | Play | Knock Me a Kiss (DJ Wuthe am Grammophon) | 00:00 Tools | |
38957353 | Play | Jubilee Hop | 00:00 Tools | |
38957355 | Play | Norfolk Ferry | 00:00 Tools | |
38957354 | Play | Big John's Special (80K M 3.01) | 00:00 Tools | |
38957359 | Play | No Soap | 00:00 Tools | |
38957360 | Play | Remember | 00:00 Tools | |
38957361 | Play | Tippin In | 00:00 Tools | |
38957362 | Play | A Study In Blue | 00:00 Tools | |
38957363 | Play | Swingin' On Lenox Avenue - Original | 00:00 Tools |
Jazz trumpeter Erskine Hawkins was born in Birmingham, Alabama July 26, 1914. A talented high-note trumpeter and a popular bandleader, Erskine Hawkins was nicknamed “The 20th Century Gabriel.” He learned drums and trombone before switching to trumpet when he was 13, and was one of five inaugural inductees into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1978. He also became on of the principal influences on a young rhythm and blues piano player named Ray Charles. While attending the Alabama State Teachers College, he became the leader of the college band, the Bama State Collegians. They went to New York in 1934, became the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, started making records in 1936 and by 1938 were quite successful. The first formal appearance of Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra was in 1938 when the band won a recording contract with RCA Victor. However, the inception of the band had occurred two years earlier when it was known as The 'Bama State Collegians. Hawkins, whose biggest influences were Louis Armstrong records, skipped out on a 'Bama State Collegians band trip to New Jersey so he could play some gigs in New York. At one of these early shows, Armstrong surprised him backstage at the Apollo Theater. From then on, whenever Hawkins came to New York, Armstrong would also take the stage at the Savoy Ballroom, where Hawkins' dance band attracted a loyal following. Hawkins had three major hits (”Tuxedo Junction,” “After Hours” and “Tippin' In”) and was able to keep the big band together all the way until 1953. Hawkins' band was so popular that he was able to retain a permanent roster of players, most of whom were from Birmingham. The style was “down-home” and blues-inspired, but it could still swing and lay down a great dance beat. Two of his chief arrangers were pianist Avery “After Hours” Parrish and trumpeter Sammy Lowe. (See Sammy Lowe's biography, also on this website.) Baritone saxophone soloist Haywood Henry, who stayed with Hawkins until the band broke up in 1953, anchored the music securely in a solid harmony. During the band's heyday, the 1930s and 40s, Hawkins featured vocalists Ida James, Delores Brown and Della Reese. ROCKIN ROLLERS JUBILEE (1938) was ahead of its time, but TUXEDO JUNCTION (1939) became the anthem of American GIs in Europe during the early years of WWII. In 1978, Erskine Hawkins became one of the first five artists inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. He died in 1993 in Willingboro, New Jersey. Hawkins was an exact contemporary of another Birmingham jazz great, Sun Ra. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.