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Body and Soul

An RCA compilation of Hawkins's 1939 to 1956 recordings, built around the 1939 "Body and Soul".
Coleman Hawkins, 1996

The CD (an LP edition is dated 1976) collects nineteen recordings made between 1939 and 1956, among them the October 1939 "Body and Soul" at 3:00 and a 1956 remake at 4:51. AllMusic gave it four and a half stars and Larkin's Encyclopedia of Popular Music five. The 1939 session's personnel as listed there was Hawkins on tenor, Tommy Lindsay and Joe Guy on trumpet, Earl Hardy on trombone, Jackie Fields and Eustis Moore on alto saxophone, Gene Rodgers on piano, William "Oscar" Smith on bass and Arthur Herbert on drums, with Rodgers playing the four-bar introduction; the lineup is not settled across sources.

Track listing

  1. Meet Doctor Foo2:32
  2. Fine Dinner2:33
  3. She's Funny That Way3:14
  4. Body and Soul3:00
  5. When Day Is Done3:15
  6. The Sheik of Araby2:56
  7. My Blue Heaven2:46
  8. Bouncing with Bean3:03
  9. Say It Isn't So2:57
  10. Spotlite3:06
  11. April in Paris3:06
  12. How Strange3:02
  13. Half Step Down, Please3:02
  14. Angel Face3:12
  15. There Will Never Be Another You2:57
  16. The Bean Stalks Again3:24
  17. Body and Soul (1956)4:51
  18. I Love Paris3:30
  19. Under Paris Skies2:45

Sources

  1. Body and Soul (Coleman Hawkins album), Wikipedia
  2. Coleman Hawkins, Wikipedia