• Letter from Coleman Hawkins to Renée Gertler

  • Reference number
  • NJA/C/DIA/COR/110
  • Title
  • Letter from Coleman Hawkins to Renée Gertler
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  • Date of creation
  • 07/09/1935
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  • Item
  • Quantity
  • 1 Item
  • Description
  • Hawkins is playing with a seven piece orchestra under his direction at the Hamdorff Hotel in Laren - where he's recorded the previous week. He finishes on Sunday and then it's back to the Hague. The band are really swinging. He's going to write to Elma about the work in the UK. He hasn't yet heard his recording of 'Stardust'. He'd listened to some of Ambrose' discs and he sounds good - Hawkins always liked Ambrose's Orchestra.,,
    Subject notes (people): Elma (Warren); 'Gates'; Ambrose; 'Zita'. Subject notes (places): Hamdorff Hotel, Laren, Netherlands; The Hague; Copenhagen. Subject notes (recordings & songs): Hawkins' 'Stardust'; 'Rhythm Is Our Business'.,
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    Format notes: Paper and envelope unmarked - paper lined. Three sheets, single sided and numbered. Dated 7 Sept. 1935.
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  • Letter
  • Copy Status
  • Original
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  • NJA keywords
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  • Physical Description
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  • Storage location
  • Loughton Archive-2
  • Name of creator
  • Hawkins, Coleman
  • Language
  • English
  • Colour
  • Out of copyright
  • No
  • Copyright expiry date
  • 31/12/2039
  • Copyright owner
  • Hawkins, Coleman
  • Copyright holder birth date
  • 21/11/1904
  • Copyright holder death date
  • 19/05/1969
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  • Access Status
  • Open
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