"Soul Eyes" by The Jazz Professors

"Soul Eyes" by The Jazz Professors

"Soul Eyes" by Jazz Professors

Orlando (Fla.)

Music--United States

Jazz--United States

An audio recording of "Soul Eyes," composed by Mal Waldron (1925-2002) and performed by The Jazz Professors live on-air on WUCF-FM on December 10, 2007. The Jazz Professors are a sextet of professors from the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Florida, who play professionally and have released two albums with Flying Horse Records, a professional jazz record label operated by the university. They have recorded and toured with a number of prominent guest musicians "Soul Eyes" is a jazz standard first recorded for the 1957 Prestige All Stars album, Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors. Composer Waldron, who was in the group, wrote the song with bandmate and tenor saxophonist, John Coltrane (1926-1967), in mind, who would make the song famous with his own recording in 1962.

Waldron, Mal

Original 4-minute and 31-second audio recording: Waldron, Mal. "Soul Eyes," by the Jazz Professors: WUCF-FM, Orlando, Florida, December 10, 2007.

2007-12-10

2007-12-10

2007-12-10

The Jazz Professors

Rupert, Jeff

Danielsson, Per

Wilkinson, Michael

Koelble, Bobby

Drexler, Richard

Morell, Marty

Jazz Collection, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida

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audio/mp3

4.14

4-minute and 31-second audio recording

Sound

WUCF-FM, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Donation

History Teacher

Humanities Teacher

Music Teacher

Originally composed by Mal Waldron, performed by The Jazz Professors, and published by WUCF-FM.

Copyright to this resource is held by Mal Waldron and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Cravero, Geoffrey

"The Jazz Professors." Allaboutjazz.com. http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/thejazzprofessors#.UZEjASucVPw (accessed March 9, 2015).