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There is more than one artist with this name: 1. A German jazz act. 2. A New York based Underground Hip-Hop group with Cage and Camu Tao. They produced only one self-titled album. Camu Tao has since passed away. The Nighthawks are named after the Sylvester Stalone and Billy Dee Williams movie featuring a white and black cop team. The Nighthawks album is a concept album about a white and black partnership of some really corrupt cops. 3. "The Nighthawks" are a blues and roots music band based in Washington, DC. .

Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Laws (born October 3, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz, blues and funk saxophonist. He is the younger brother of jazz flautist Hubert Laws. Laws is the fifth of eight children born to Hubert Laws, Sr. and Miola Luverta Donahue. Laws attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas for two years. In 1972, Laws joined the fledgling group Earth, Wind & Fire, playing saxophone and flute on their album Last Days And Time. He left the band soon afterwards, long before they achieved their huge commercial success. In 1976, he began his solo...

Coleman Hawkins, detto anche “Hawk” o “Bean”, (San Giuseppe, 21 novembre 1904 – Nuova York, 19 maggio 1969) è stato un sassofonista statunitense di musica jazz. È universalmente riconosciuto come il padre del sassofono jazz e come il musicista che ha contribuito all’identificazione tra jazz e sassofono. Fino all’avvento del suo rivale Lester Young e dei bopper che — in parte — ne seguirono le orme stilistiche, il suono e il fraseggio di Coleman Hawkins definirono il sassofono jazz. Lester Young ricorda che la moglie di un musicista che lo ospitava gli suonava ogni giorno dischi di Coleman Hawkins perché...