Star Dust (Coleman Hawkins, 1937)
Context
Recorded on August 18, 1937 by Coleman Hawkins for Decca (matrix AM 401), with Freddy Johnson on piano, at a European session that also yielded sides by Benny Carter's orchestra. Johnson, a pianist based in Amsterdam, played there in a trio with Hawkins at the Negro Palace, before being arrested by the Nazis in December 1941 and interned in Bavaria until 1944.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.