• Letter from Coleman Hawkins to Renée Gertler

  • Reference number
  • NJA/C/DIA/COR/61
  • Title
  • Letter from Coleman Hawkins to Renée Gertler
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  • Date of creation
  • 21/10/1934
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  • Quantity
  • 1 Item
  • Description
  • Personal letter. Hawkins asks who 'manipulates the piano' in Benny Goodman's recording of 'Moon Glow' - he thinks it might be 'Theodore' (? Teddy Wilson - Wilson was on Goodman's recording). 'Connie's' (Connie Boswell) recording of 'All I Do is Dream of You' is 'solid "sending" me'.,,
    Subject notes (people): 'Barbara'; 'Gate'; Benny Goodman; 'Theodore' (Theodore Shaw Wilson - Teddy Wilson ?); 'Connie' (Boswell ?); Red McKenzie (William 'Red' McKenzie); 'Mrs Jack' (? Mrs Jack Hylton - Ennis Parkes (born Florence Parkinson)) Subject notes (recordings & songs): Benny Goodman - 'Moon Glow'; 'Connie' (Boswell ?) - 'All I Do is Dream of You'; Red McKenzie - 'Georgia'; 'The Day You Came Along'; 'Coffee in the Morning'.,
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    Format notes: Both envelope and paper from Grand Hotel, Hanley, Stoke on Trent. Five sheets, single sided to form five numbered pages. Postmarked Stoke on Trent. Sent to 34, The Avenue, Brondesbury, London, NW6. No date. Letter signed 'Coly'.
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  • Letter
  • Copy Status
  • Original
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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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