Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul download song

Oh boy, what a tone and feeling

I think four "people" were expecting Kenny G.

Fantastic historical recording by Coleman Hawkins. IMHO very advanced especially for 1939. His sax riffs are pure fluid!

This is one of those songs that you replay over and over upon first listening because it's that good I Love how all his lines get stuck in my head

The great Coleman Hawkins.

Reminds me of the music my parents played. They made me love it. I love you, mom and dad.

This was on the first 10" LP I bought as a 15year old I still love and I am now 75.

I can listen to this over and over and over . . .

This......is the epitome of feeling, and soul. What a masterpiece. It’s so classic, and so bouncy, but so relaxing. Unbelievable. It will forever be one the best jazz pieces of all time.

"I didn't even bother to listen to it afterwards. Got through playing it, packed up my horn and walked out." - Coleman Hawkins (on his legendary recording of "Body and Soul")

Tone so warm I have to turn on the ac

in 1939, this must have seemed like another planet. genius !.

With no rehearsal and just one take, Hawkins captured musical lightning. “His eyes were closed,” his pianist Gene Rodgers recalled, “and he just played as if he was in heaven.” God said to Coleman "Trust Me" and Coleman said, "I hear you Lord"

I have this in my PC, but I still listen to it from here, cause i need to see his face.. in order not to forget how a giant looks like!!

This is too good for words.

well...the most difficult thing to me is to think, that by the time this record was done the bop hadn't been born. You know, Bird, Dizzy, Miles, created modern jazz language. We used to hear phrases and licks from them. And Hawkins composed his solo when that language, that licks that are in our subconciosness just didn't exist. Unbelievable.

Best version of Body and Soul ever made.

THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DEBATE ABOUT WHO WAS THE GREATEST TENOR GUY. WHAT I SAY TO THAT IS RELAX AND ENJOY THEM ALL. THEY WERE ALL GREAT. I THANK GOD FOR LETTING US HEAR THEM ALL.

Every time I listen to this, I hear something new. It's a three-minute graduate course in improvising jazz.

Lots of jazzy people think this is one of the greatest moments of recorded Music. They are right...