Edward Heyman
In the collection
6 records
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
Benny Goodman, 1950
At Newport
Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday, 1958
Two Of A Mind
Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan, 1962
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday, 1972
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 35
Thelonious Monk, Phil Woods, Jimmy Cleveland, Max Roach, 1981
The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941
Duke Ellington, 1990
Played with
Johnny Green
6 records together
Duke Ellington
3 records together
Mitchell Parish
3 records together
Frank Eyton
3 records together
Robert Sour
3 records together
Billie Holiday
2 records together
Benny Goodman
2 records together
Wendell Marshall
2 records together
Joe Benjamin
2 records together
Dorothy Fields
2 records together
Jerome Kern
2 records together
E.Y. Harburg
2 records together
About
American musician and lyricist (14 March 1907 in New York — 16 October 1981 in Jalisco, Mexico). He had an early start on his career writing college musicals, after college he started working with a number of experienced musicians in New York, like Victor Young, Dana Suesse and Johnny Green. He contributed songs to film scores including That Girl From Paris, Curly Top, Kissing Bandit, Delightfully Dangerous and Northwest Outpost.
His biggest hit is his composition “Body and Soul”, written in 1930.
Heyman was an ASCAP writer and inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.