UNCONVENTION22: Randy Weston: Musician

{quote}So many - but I would have to say 'Body and Soul ' by Coleman Hawkins, when I was 13 years old. And I heard it, I got an allowance from my father I got 75 cents a week. I told him get me an advance .... I bought three copies of 'Body and Soul'. I hid two and played one out for the people in the streets to hear and it turned out the first time I heard Thelonious Monk was with Coleman Hawkins. And I was so happy in 1959 he recorded for me and he played my music. So if I picked one that would be it. And there's so many but I would pick that one.{quote}Randy Weston: Moss Theatre, Santa Monica, 21st October 2017I understand that Mr Weston was referring to the 78rpm EP released in 1939. Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul - recordings made between 1939 and 1956.
Randy Weston: Musician, Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul

 

"So many - but I would have to say 'Body and Soul ' by Coleman Hawkins, when I was 13 years old. And I heard it, I got an allowance from my father I got 75 cents a week. I told him get me an advance .... I bought three copies of 'Body and Soul'. I hid two and played one out for the people in the streets to hear and it turned out the first time I heard Thelonious Monk was with Coleman Hawkins.  

And I was so happy in 1959 he recorded for me and he played my music. So if I picked one that would be it. And there's so many but I would pick that one." 

Randy Weston: Moss Theatre, Santa Monica, 21st October 2017 

I understand that Mr Weston was referring to the 78rpm EP released in 1939.  

Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul - recordings made between 1939 and 1956.