Lester Young & Coleman Hawkins 1958 https://t.co/O94f8Ugd4f h\t @JazzWax— Sid Celery (@sidcelery) October 29, 2016
Sunday, October 30, 2016
#LesterYoung & #ColemanHawkins
Monday, September 29, 2014
Coleman Hawkins + Willie Smith
Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com
Back in 1958, Coleman Hawkins appeared on TV backed only by Willie "The Lion" Smith to play Indian Summer. He was on Art Ford's Jazz Party, a TV series on WNTA-TV in New York City that aired on Thursdays at 9 p.m. from May 8 to December 25, 1958. A big thanks to John Cooper for sending along the link...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, January 23, 2009
Opera singer sings "Body and Soul" live from Concert
My first live jazz appearance since 1984 as a jazz crooner.
about the song:
"Body and Soul" is a popular song written in 1930 by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green. It was introduced by Libby Holman in the revue Three's A Crowd and used as a soundtrack theme in the 1947 film named for the song.
"Body and Soul" became a jazz standard, with hundreds of versions performed and recorded by dozens of artists. The most famous of these is the take recorded by Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra on October 11, 1939 at their only recording session for Bluebird, a subsidiary of RCA Victor. Hawkins' solo on this take is considered to be "one of the finest examples of pure, spontaneous creative artistry in the history of jazz."[citation needed] It was one of the first straight jazz records (as against swing) to become a commercial hit. This was unusual, as the song's melody is never directly stated in the recording; saxophonist Hawkins two-choruses' worth of improvisation on the tune's chord progression constitute almost the entire take.[ In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.
The pianist on Hawkins' recording of the song was Gene Rodgers.
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