Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul free for downloading

These comments all have a certain beauty, almost like jazz improvisation Solos here and there divergent views blending into one theme, but all appreciative and loving of this unique and beautiful form

I'm a pianist who used to play at a piano bar in lower Manhattan.   A young man used to come in and listen to me and we'd shoot the breeze.  One day he mentioned his father , Coleman Hawkins, in a sentence and I said "Hold it.  What did you just say?"   He was David Hawkins, his son, and I never forgot that evening.

Best version of Body and Soul ever made.

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

The great Coleman Hawkins.

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

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

A classic recording that I never tire of hearing.

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.

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"

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.

Oh boy, what a tone and feeling

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

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!!

Tone so warm I have to turn on the ac

you can see where bird got his style

"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")

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

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

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.