Name: | Erskine Hawkins |
Occupation: | Unclassified |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | July 26, 1914 |
Death Date: | November 11, 1993 |
Age: | Aged 79 |
Country: | Not Known |
Zodiac Sign: | Leo |
Erskine Hawkins
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As per our current Database, Erskine Hawkins died on November 11, 1993.
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During 1936 through 1938, he recorded for Vocalion Records as “Erskine Hawkins and his ‘Bama State Collegians”. In 1938, he signed with RCA Victor Records and began recording on their Bluebird label as, simply, “Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra”.
In 1978, Erskine Hawkins became one of the first five artists inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. In 1989, he was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. Hawkins was a contemporary of another Birmingham jazz musician, Sun Ra. The story of the Hawkins legacy continues to be told today, during tours of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Museum, by Ray Reach (Director of Student Jazz Programs) and Frank Adams, (Director of Education, Emeritus) at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
Hawkins was trumpeter and band leader in the lobby bar and show nightclub at The Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, New York from 1967 to 1993 with his last performing group Joe Vitale piano, Dudly Watson bass, Sonny Rossi vocals & clarinet, and George Leary drums . Hawkins died at his home in Willingboro Township, New Jersey in November 1993, after a brief visit with his sister in Alabama before he was able to return to resume playing with his band at the Concord at the age of 79. He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, alongside his sister, in Birmingham, Alabama.
On his final Sunday night radio show (July 26, 2009) Malcolm Laycock celebrated the 95th anniversary of Hawkins’ birth, by featuring music performed by Hawkins. In 2011, the story of Erskine Hawkins and the Bama State Collegians was the subject of a Florida State University Film School MFA Thesis Film “The Collegians”, written and directed by Bryan Lewis.
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