• Letter from Coleman Hawkins to Renée Gertler

  • Reference number
  • NJA/C/DIA/COR/88
  • Title
  • Letter from Coleman Hawkins to Renée Gertler
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  • Date of creation
  • 03/04/1935
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  • Item
  • Quantity
  • 1 Item
  • Description
  • Hawkin's' trail of addresses'25/08/2021. Promoting a 'big 'radiogram''. The source of Ellington's 'Delta Serenade' is a riff sung by 'weed smokers' in Harlem - letter contains two bars of musical notation of this riff. Hawkins likes the melody of Waller's 'Believe it, Beloved'.He's going to Oslo and may go on to Helsinki - if he does then he'll certainly go to Leningrad. Gives his next postal address as c/o Mr. Helmer Enwall, Hamngatan 22, Stockholm, Sweden.,,
    Subject notes (people): 'Duke' Ellington; 'Fats' Waller; Helmer Elmer. Subject notes (places): America; Harlem; Aarhus; Palace Hotel, Copemhagen; London; Paris; Den Haag; Copenhagen; Stockholm, Sweden; Oslo, Norway; Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland; Leningrad, Russia. Subject notes (recordings & songs): 'Duke' Ellington's 'Delta Serenade'; Fats' Waller's 'Believe It, beloved'.,
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    Format notes: Stationery - Two sheets, four numbered pages. Headed 'Kobenhavn. 3/4/35'.
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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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