Everybody talks about how Coleman Hawkins' Body &Soul (1939) changed the history of recorded jazz forever and widely established the tenor saxophone as an instrument of pure self-expression for the years to come. However, people hardly mention an ancestor to the song, Blue & Sentimental; a groundbreaking record by Herschel Evans, recorded with Count Basie Orchestra in 1938. According to Count Basie's autobiography, Good Morning Blues, co-written by Albert Murray, when Hawkins returned from his long stay in Europe, he wasn't aware of Herschel Evans' passing earlier that year (he was only 29). Basie remembers:
