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Genre. Jazz. Composer (s) Johnny Green. Lyricist (s) Edward Heyman. Robert Sour. Frank Eyton. "Body and Soul" is a popular song and jazz standard written in 1930 with music by Johnny Green and lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton.
« Body & Soul » —en español: «Cuerpo y alma»— es una canción clásica del repertorio melódico estadounidense, compuesta en 1930 y grabada desde entonces por múltiples artistas como Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday y Frank Sinatra. Los autores de la canción son: Johnny B. Green (música) y Robert B. Sour, Edward Heyman y Frank Eyton (letra).
- 2011
- Descarga digital
- 14 de septiembre de 2011
The song’s composer, Johnny Green was not a jazz musician, but he understood jazz and he included several features in “Body & Soul” which would appeal to jazz musicians through the years. “Body & Soul” is famously known as “the song that begins with a rest”.
John Waldo Green (October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989) was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earliest, "Body and Soul" from the revue Three's a Crowd.
Johnny Green, composer of one of the great standards “Body and Soul” and one of the most celebrated conductors in American popular music, was born in New York City on October 10, 1908. Green attended Horace Mann H.S., the New York Military Academy, and then graduated from Harvard University, in 1928.
This essay explores the multiple histories, traditions, and authorities present in more than 200 recorded performances of “Body and Soul.” The early recordings (dozens of them from 1930 alone) demonstrate both enormous variety and distinct British and American performance patterns, but few of these innovations survive beyond 1940.
BODY AND SOUL. Música: Johnny Green- Letra: Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton. Año: 1930. Origen de la canción.
