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"Body and Soul" is a popular song
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
 written in 1930
1930 in music

Events*February 16 - Nicholas Slonimsky premieres Charles Ives's Three Places in New England.*August 24 - Festival Puccini is launched at Torre del Lago....
 by Edward Heyman
Edward Heyman

Edward Heyman was an United States musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul ", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons "....
, Robert Sour
Robert Sour

Robert Sour was a lyricist and composer, and the president of Broadcast Music Incorporated .In 1940 Sour worked for Broadcast Music as its lyrics editor, and by 1966 had risen through company ranks to become BMI's president....
, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green
Johnny Green

Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
. It was introduced by Libby Holman
Libby Holman

Libby Holman was an United States Torch song and Actor who was, in her time, considered both a scandalous tarnished lady and a tragedy-prone millionairess....
 in the revue
Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
 Three's a Crowd and used as a soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 theme in the 1947
1947 in film

The year 1947 in film involved some significant events....
 film
Body and Soul (1947 film)

Body and Soul is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of a boxing who becomes involved with crooked promoters. It stars John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad....
 named for the song.

"Body and Soul" became a jazz standard
Jazz standard

A jazz standard is a jazz tune that is held in continuing esteem and which is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians as part of the jazz musical repertoire....
, with hundreds of versions performed and recorded by dozens of artists. The most famous of these is the take
Take

A take is a single continuous recorded performance. The term is used in film and music to denote and track the stages of production....
 recorded by Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins , nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz Tenor saxophone.He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E....
 and His Orchestra on October 11, 1939 at their only recording session for Bluebird
Bluebird

The bluebirds are medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Sialia of the thrush family Turdidae.These are a few of the relatively thousands thrush genera to be restricted to the Americas....
, a subsidiary of RCA Victor.






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"Body and Soul" is a popular song
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
 written in 1930
1930 in music

Events*February 16 - Nicholas Slonimsky premieres Charles Ives's Three Places in New England.*August 24 - Festival Puccini is launched at Torre del Lago....
 by Edward Heyman
Edward Heyman

Edward Heyman was an United States musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul ", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons "....
, Robert Sour
Robert Sour

Robert Sour was a lyricist and composer, and the president of Broadcast Music Incorporated .In 1940 Sour worked for Broadcast Music as its lyrics editor, and by 1966 had risen through company ranks to become BMI's president....
, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green
Johnny Green

Johnny Green was an USA songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conducting. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger....
. It was introduced by Libby Holman
Libby Holman

Libby Holman was an United States Torch song and Actor who was, in her time, considered both a scandalous tarnished lady and a tragedy-prone millionairess....
 in the revue
Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
 Three's a Crowd and used as a soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
 theme in the 1947
1947 in film

The year 1947 in film involved some significant events....
 film
Body and Soul (1947 film)

Body and Soul is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of a boxing who becomes involved with crooked promoters. It stars John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad....
 named for the song.

"Body and Soul" became a jazz standard
Jazz standard

A jazz standard is a jazz tune that is held in continuing esteem and which is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians as part of the jazz musical repertoire....
, with hundreds of versions performed and recorded by dozens of artists. The most famous of these is the take
Take

A take is a single continuous recorded performance. The term is used in film and music to denote and track the stages of production....
 recorded by Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins , nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was a prominent jazz Tenor saxophone.He is commonly regarded as the first important and influential jazz musician to use the instrument: Joachim E....
 and His Orchestra on October 11, 1939 at their only recording session for Bluebird
Bluebird

The bluebirds are medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Sialia of the thrush family Turdidae.These are a few of the relatively thousands thrush genera to be restricted to the Americas....
, a subsidiary of RCA Victor. Hawkins' solo
Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer. In practice this means a number of different things, depending on the type of music and the context....
 on this take is considered to be "one of the finest examples of pure, spontaneous creative artistry in the history of jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
." 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
Melody

In music, a melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity....
 is never directly stated in the recording; saxophonist
Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
 Hawkins two-choruses' worth of improvisation
Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation is the creative activity of immediate musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians....
 on the tune's chord progression
Chord progression

A chord progression is series of chord s played in order. Chord progressions are central to most modern music and the principal study of harmony....
 constitute almost the entire take. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress
Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books....
 to be added to the National Recording Registry
National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed...
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The pianist on Hawkins' recording of the song was Gene Rodgers
Gene Rodgers

Gene Rodgers was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He is best known for being the pianist on Coleman Hawkins' famous 1939 recording of "Body and Soul "....
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External links

  • at JazzStandards.com