• Letter from Coleman Hawkins to Renée and Sadie Gertler

  • Reference number
  • NJA/C/DIA/COR/65
  • Title
  • Letter from Coleman Hawkins to Renée and Sadie Gertler
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  • Date of creation
  • 05/12/1934
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  • Quantity
  • 1 Item
  • Description
  • Personal letter. Hawkins asks how Renee likes Fletcher henderson's 1934 version of Shanghai Shuffle - he alludes to Henderson's 1924 version with Louis Armstrong as 'lovely'. He says Henry Red Allen is with the Blue Rhythm Band at the Cotton Club. Hawkins doesn't 'know for sure' about (John ?) Kirby but he'd heard that Duke (Ellington ?) wanted him.,,
    Subject notes (people): Duke (Ellington ?); Fletcher (Henderson ?); Red Allen: (John ?) Kirby; Louis (Armstrong?); 'Gertrude'. Subject notes (places): Cotton Club. Subject notes (recordings & songs): Duke Ellington - 'Solitude; Fletcher Henderson - Shanghai Shuffle (1924 and 1934 versions).,
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    Format notes: Both envelope and paper from the Market Hotel, Birmingham. Four sheets, single sided to form four numbered pages. The start of the letter is addressed to Renee and there's a section addressed to Sadie midway down the third page. Postmarked Birmingham. Sent to Sadie and Renee Gertler, 34 The Avenue, Brondesbury N.W. 6, London. Letter signed Coleman.
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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
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  • 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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