Body and Soul is an album by the jazz tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, including recordings made between 1939 and 1956. It takes its name from one of Hawkins' most famous performances – a 1939 recording of "Body and Soul". The album also contains a 1956 recording of the same piece. (Because the 1939 recording is held in the highest regard, there have been a number of compilations with the same title, including an earlier CD from Records, on the Topaz Jazz Records/Pearl imprint, and a boxed set from Proper.)
Track listing
"Meet Doctor Foo" (Hawkins) – 2:32
"Fine Dinner" (Hawkins) – 2:33
"She's Funny That Way" (Whiting–Daniels) – 3:14
"Body and Soul" (Heyman–Green–Sour) – 3:00
"When Day Is Done" (Katscher–deSylva) – 3:15
"The Sheik of Araby" (Wheeler–Smith–Snyder) – 2:56
"My Blue Heaven" (Whiting–Donaldson) – 2:46
"Bouncing with Bean" (Hawkins) – 3:03
"Say It Isn't So" (Berlin) – 2:57
"Spotlite" (Hawkins) – 3:06
"April in Paris" (Harburg–Duke) – 3:06
"How Strange" (Prozorovsky–Brent–Kahn–Stothart) – 3:02
"Half Step Down, Please" (Dameron–Hawkins) – 3:02
"Angel Face" (Jones) – 3:12
"There Will Never Be Another You" (Warren–Gordon) – 2:57
"The Bean Stalks Again" (Hawkins) – 3:24
"Body and Soul" – 4:51
"I Love Paris" (Porter) – 3:30
"Under Paris Skies" (Gannon–Drejac–Giraud) – 2:45
Personnel
Coleman Hawkins – Tenor saxophone
Tommy Lindsay – Trumpet
Joe Guy – Trumpet
Early Hardy – Trombone
Jackie Fields – Alto saxophone
Eustis Moore – Alto saxophone
Gene Rodgers – Piano
William Oscar Smith – Double Bass
Arthur Herbert – Drums
Thelma Carpenter – Vocals on "She's Funny That Way"