Jazz has always used the American Songbook as marble slabs to sculpt beautiful works of art. Jazz artists who record the most moving versions of these standards tend to be best associated with them. For example, Coleman Hawkins owned Body and Soul after his hit rendition in 1939, and Charlie Parker recorded the definitive Just Friends and April in Paris…
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