Body and Soul, Live in Berlin is a big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, recorded in Berlin in October 1978 and released on the West Wind Jazz label. West Wind also issued the two discs individually as The Orchestra (WW 2044) and Body and Soul (WW 2048). All tracks except "ABC Blues" are also included in the 2007 compilation album, Thad Jones Mel Lewis Orchestra In Europe.
Track listing Disc 1: "Second Race" – 9:30 "Willow Weep for Me" (Ronell) – 8:45 "ABC Blues" (Brookmeyer)– 20:05 "Sixty First and Richard" – 11:25 Disc 2: "Body and Soul" (Heyman, Sour, Eyton and Green) – 7:10 "Don't Get Sassy" – 10:25 "Child Is Born" – 9:45 "Fingers" – 14:10 "Intimacy of the Blues" (Strayhorn) – 16:25 All songs composed by Thad Jones except as noted.
Personnel Thad Jones – flugelhorn Mel Lewis – drums Jim McNeely – piano Jesper Lundgaard – bass Dick Oatts – alto saxophone Steve Coleman – alto saxophone Rick Perry – tenor saxophone Robert Rockwell – tenor saxophone Charles Davis – baritone saxophone Ron Tooley – trumpet Simo Salminen – trumpet Irvin Stokes – trumpet Larry Moss – trumpet Doug Purviance – trombone Lolly Bienenfeld – trombone Lee Robertson – trombone John Mosca – trombone
References / External links
West Wind Jazz WW2048 West Wind Jazz WW2407 West Wind Jazz discography [ AllMusic]