Fellow saxophonist Lester Young, who was called " Pres ", in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review, said: " As far as I'm concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the President first, right?

* 1959: Very Saxy-with Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins and Arnett Cobb ( Prestige )

With first wife Thelma Coleman, whom he married in 1953 ( divorced in 1959 ), he has three children:

He became an enthusiastic advocate of this style and wrote many works according to its principles, among them Transformation ( 1957, for jazz ensemble ), Concertino ( 1959, for jazz quartet and orchestra ; one of its movements, Progression in Tempo, has sometimes been performed separately ), Abstraction ( 1959, for nine instruments ), the opera The Visitation ( 1966 ), and Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk ( 1960, for 13 instruments ), which was recorded by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Bill Evans.

Some of West Coast jazz was experimental, avant-garde music several years before the more mainstream avant-garde playing of Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman ( Manne also recorded with Coleman in 1959 ); a good deal of Manne's work with Jimmy Giuffre was of this kind.

Around the same time in 1959, Manne recorded with the traditional Benny Goodman and the iconoclastic Ornette Coleman, a striking example of his versatility.

* Coleman Hawkins with the Red Garland Trio ( Moodsville, 1959 )-with Coleman Hawkins

Like many American soldiers, in 1959 Colin Powell, then lieutenant of the 3rd Armored Division, served at Coleman Kaserne.

When Phillips resigned from the Public Service Commission in 1959, Coleman appointed Phillips ' older brother, the author Thomas Hal Phillips, to the remaining portion of the term.

At the end of the season he was sent to Cleveland for Billy Martin, Gordy Coleman and Cal McLish, in one of the first interleague trades in major league history ( December 16, 1959 ).

Although Davis had garnered acclaim for Kind of Blue, the entrance of Ornette Coleman and free jazz via his fall 1959 residency at the Five Spot Café and his albums for Atlantic Records had created controversy, and turned attention away from Davis.

* Like many American soldiers, in 1959 Colin Powell, then lieutenant of the 3rd Armored Division, served at Coleman Kaserne.

* 1959 Browns-Ken Coleman / Jimmy Dudley

On 17 November 1959, the Ornette Coleman Quartet from Los Angeles made its New York debut at the Five Spot.

Gordon Calvin Coleman ( July 5, 1934 Rockville, Maryland – March 12, 1994 Cincinnati, Ohio ) was a Major League first baseman with the Cleveland Indians ( 1959 ) and the Cincinnati Reds ( 1960 – 1967 ).

When Steele died in 1959 Crawford was appointed to the Board of Directors of Pepsi-Cola, a position she held until 1973, although she was not a board member of the larger PepsiCo, created in 1965.

Gilbert returned to Harvard in 1956 and was appointed assistant professor of physics in 1959 ; in 1964 Gilbert was promoted to associate professor of biophysics and promoted again in 1968 to professor of biochemistry.

He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information ( 1945 – 1946 ) and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency ( 1959 – 1969 ).

Malraux was appointed Minister of State in De Gaulle's 1958 – 1959 government, and France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs.

In December 1959, aware that things were not working in Syria, Nasser appointed Amer as governor-general alongside Sarraj.

Macmillan later appointed Heath Minister of Labour, a Cabinet Minister-as Chief Whip Heath had attended Cabinet but had not been formally a member-after winning the October 1959 election.

Sir Peter Hall was appointed artistic director ( designate ) in 1959, and formed the Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) in 1961.

After securing a third term for the Conservatives in 1959 he appointed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary.

When his Cabinet broke up in December 1958, he was appointed to the honorary position of Minister of State, the Dutch Labour Party appointed him a member of its Executive Council for life in 1959.

In 1959 the ( then ) Council for Nature appointed Brigadier Armstrong to form the Conservation Corps, with the objective of involving young volunteers, over the age of 16, in practical conservation work.

On 23 June 1959, Seán Lemass was appointed Taoiseach on the nomination of Dáil Éireann.

Ua Buachalla and de Valera subsequently patched up their differences, and in a symbolic act of apology, de Valera, when elected President of Ireland in 1959 appointed Ua Buachalla to his advisory Council of State.

In 1959 William Glock was appointed controller of music for the BBC, and the profile and fortunes of the BBC SO began to rise.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1952 and was knighted in 1959.

In 1959, he became a Juris Doctor in International Law at the University of Uppsala, where he was appointed Associate Professor in International Law the next year.

He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in November 1952, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation in November 1953, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in January 1957, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office in November 1958, and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in January 1959.

He was appointed England Captain in 1959 for a Test match against the country of his birth-he captained England 27 times, appointed and re-appointed due to ill health in 1959-62, 1966, and 1967-69 ( Won 8, Drawn 15, Lost 4 ).

He was then appointed chairman of the Colonial Development Corporation which he held until 1959.

After graduation, Herschbach joined the University of California at Berkeley, where he was appointed an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in 1959 and became an Associate Professor in 1961.

On February 21, 1957 Herter was appointed Under Secretary of State for the second term of the Eisenhower administration, and later, when John Foster Dulles became seriously ill, he was appointed Secretary of State, April 22, 1959.

He was internationally recognized with membership of the The Japan Academy and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and in 1959 was appointed a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

In 1946 he was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy, was appointed a Master of Sculpture from 1959 to 1966 and became the longest-serving member of the Academy.

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1959 – András Petöcz, Hungarian author

* 1885 – Vance Palmer, Australian author ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter, musician, and author

In botany, the author abbreviation used to indicate Linnaeus as the authority for species ' names is L. In 1959, Carl Linnaeus was designated as the lectotype for Homo sapiens, which means that following the nomenclatural rules, Homo sapiens was validly defined as the animal species to which Linnaeus belonged.

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* 1959 – Gerina Dunwich, American author

* 1883 – Sax Rohmer, English author ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Julie Burchill, English journalist and author

* 1959 – Sax Rohmer, English author ( b. 1883 )

* 1959 – Wayne Federman, American comedian, actor, and author

* 1900 – George Antheil, American composer, pianist, and author d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Rick Bragg, American author and journalist

* 1959 – David Mills, American author

* 1959 – Ben Elton, English comedian and author

* 1959 – Nina Hartley, American porn star, author and feminist

Elizabeth Mead ( 1909 – 1983 ), an artist and teacher, married cartoonist William Steig, and Priscilla Mead ( 1911 – 1959 ) married author Leo Rosten.

* 1959 – John Morgan, English etiquette expert and author ( d. 2000 )

* 1959 – Julia Sweeney, American actress, comedian, and author

* 1959 – Neal Stephenson, American author

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* 1959 – Benjamin Péret, French author ( b. 1899 )

* February 15 – Sax Rohmer, English author ( d. 1959 )

* Nick Cook ( Nicholas Julian Cook, b. September 2, 1959 ) is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.

* Acee Blue Eagle ( 1909 – 1959 ), Muscogee-Pawnee-Wichita artist, actor, author, and director of art at Bacone College