Click play to listen. Recorded on November 7, 2010.
With its beautiful, unspooling melody and captivating harmonic structure, “Body and Soul” is among the most-recorded of all jazz standards. Coleman Hawkins’s 1939 version of the tune—in which the melody is never once directly stated—is still, today, one of the great monuments in jazz history. Blending performance and conversation, saxophonist / clarinetist Victor Goines and his combo unearth the reasons for the enduring appeal of “Body and Soul” through their improvisations as well as discussions of definitive versions by Hawkins, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, and others. Goines also directs Northwestern University’s Jazz Studies Program.
This program is generously underwritten by the Zunamon Family Foundation.
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