[Dixielandjazz] Body and Soul / Hawkins

[Goggin, Brian (Dublin)]

Always liked the ending aswell and the way the brass come in on the final
note.

Somebody once described it as the most perfect jazz record ever made.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rob McCallum [SMTP:rakmccallum at hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:47 AM
> To:	djml
> Subject:	[Dixielandjazz] Body and Soul / Hawkins
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> This certainly is a wonderfully constructed solo and certainly deserves
> it's
> place in jazz history.  The melody is used as an initial idea and the solo
> just seems to grow from there.  I hear it as a continually developing
> melodic line, though it is developing closely with the chord changes.
> Hawkins does some really interesting things, one is playing over the
> barlines, and through the different parts of the form.  Notice how his
> melody just keeps going.  He doesn't end his ideas and start a new idea on
> beat one of the first bar the second time through, for example.  The
> melody
> he's creating just flows right over it.  Notice also how he interprets a
> scale pattern (which I think comes in the middle of the first A section
> the
> second time through the form).  He plays that straight pattern, but the
> way
> he phrases and varies the attack turns a very academic thing into a very
> musical thing.
> 
> There are so many nuances in this piece it's difficult to describe with
> words.  I particularly like the way he goes into the cadenza at the end.
> The improv never sounds forced, but rather very natural and expressive.
> 
> All the best,
> Rob McCallum
> 
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