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Body and Soul

Body and Soul — chords and changes, key facts, and listening notes.

Body and Soul was composed by Johnny Green. The lyrics are credited to Edward Heyman, Frank Eyton, and Robert Sour. It dates from 1930. It is in Db major, 32 bars long, and in AABA (8-8-8-8) form.

Chart

Chord chart

Four bars per row · sections labelled

Db major

Section A1

Ebm7
Bb7
Ebm7Ab7
Dbmaj7Gb7
Fm7Edim7
Ebm7Ab7
Dbmaj7Gb7
Fm7Bb7

Section A2

Ebm7
Bb7
Ebm7Ab7
Dbmaj7Gb7
Fm7Edim7
Ebm7Ab7
Dbmaj7
Em7A7

Section B

Dmaj7Em7
F#m7Em7
Dmaj7G7
F#m7Bm7
Em7A7
Dmaj7
Dm7G7
Cm7B7

Section A3

Ebm7
Bb7
Ebm7Ab7
Dbmaj7Gb7
Fm7Edim7
Ebm7Ab7
Dbmaj7
Fm7Bb7

Draft chart, under review. This chart has not been checked yet and may contain errors.

Changes confidence: draft. Source: Draft chart, under review. Chord symbols are an original simplified analysis for study, not a transcription.

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Recordings (from MusicBrainz)

  • Frances Faye — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    1964
  • Charles Gayle — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    2001
  • Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Hodges, Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ben Webster, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Buddy Rich — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    2004
  • Kurt Elling — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    2007
  • Mulgrew Miller — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    2010
  • Coleman Hawkins — Album not listed
    Source: musicbrainz
    2013

Recording credits and years follow the entries in the dataset. Source: MusicBrainz.

Landmark solos

Solos analysed in the Weimar Jazz Database

  • Chu Berry (tenor sax) — The Chronological Classics: Chu Berry 1937-1941
    Swing · 82 bpm · swing feel
    1994
  • Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax) — Dear Old Southland
    Swing · 95 bpm · swing feel
    2005
  • David Murray (tenor sax) — Morning Song, David Murray Quartet
    Post-bop · 66 bpm · ballad feel
    1984
  • Don Byas (tenor sax) — The Chronological Classis: Don Byas 1947
    Swing · 99 bpm · swing feel
    1999
  • Joe Lovano (tenor sax) — From the Soul
    Post-bop · 60 bpm · swing feel
    1992
  • John Coltrane (tenor sax) — The Heavyweight Champion - The Complete Atlantic Recordings CD 4
    Post-bop · 138 bpm · swing feel
    1984
  • Lester Young (tenor sax) — The Lester Young Story CD 2
    Swing · 79 bpm · swing feel
    2000
  • Roy Eldridge (trumpet) — The Chronological Classics: Chu Berry 1937-1941, Chu Berry
    Swing · 107 bpm · swing feel
    1994
  • Sonny Stitt (alto sax) — Quadromania Jazz Edition, Sonny Stitt, One O'Clock Jump, CD 1
    Bebop · 68 bpm · ballad feel
    2005
  • Stan Getz (tenor sax) — The Essential Stan Getz
    Cool jazz · 63 bpm · swing feel
    1992

Solo, record, style, tempo and feel as catalogued by the Jazzomat Research Project (ODbL 1.0). Release year is the year of the catalogued issue, which can be a later reissue.

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