Who brought the tenor saxophone to prominence as a jazz instrument?
“It was the pioneering playing of Coleman Hawkins in the 1930s which lifted the tenor saxophone from its traditional role of adding weight to the ensemble and established it as a highly-effective melody instrument in its own right.” Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_saxophone Coleman Hawkins – Indian Summer (1958): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOXkDFr35M
