Body & Soul [Extra tracks, Import]

Coleman Hawkins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 29, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Definitive Spain
• ASIN: B000FFNC0A
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,459 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Meet Doctor Foo

2. Fine Dinner

3. She's Funny That Way

4. Body and Soul (1939)

5. When Day Is Done

6. The Sheik of Araby

7. My Blue Heaven

8. Bouncing with Bean

9. Say It Isn't So

10. Spotlite

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Body and Soul

2. Little Girl Blue

3. I Never Knew

4. Dinner for One, Please James

5. The Bean Stalks Again

6. His Very Own Blues

7. The Day You Came Along

8. Have You Met Miss Jones

9. The Essence of You

10. There Will Never Be Another You

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Two CD reissue of this collection of Hawkins' complete Victor Recordings master takes from 1939-1956 featuring one bonus track . Includes contributions from Benny Carter, Fats Navarro, Jay Jay Johnson, Charlie Shavers, Hank Jones and Max Roach. 50 tracks. Definitive Records.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bean at his finest, May 31, 2009

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These are clearly some of the very best recordings Hawkins made during his brilliant career. His 1939 recording of "Body and Soul" is breathtaking, although it's too bad the 78 rpm time constraints didn't allow him to stretch out the way you can feel that he wanted to during the choruses and solo. The rest of disc 1 is equally impressive. Disc 2 consists of the two LP's, "The Hawk in Hi-Fi" and "The Hawk in Paris". This 2 disc set also features such artists as Buck Clayton, Charlie Shavers, Max Roach, JJ Johnson, Shadow Wilson, Teddy Wilson and the great Fats Navarro. When asked what jazz was, Hawk replied "The rhythm-the feeling. It can be taught. Or at least its mechanical aspects can be. I think that out of so many of these thousands of musicians, plenty are mechanical, rather than real jazz musicians. But today the public doesn't know the difference. But it certainly used to." I think Bean hit the nail right on the head with that statement.