Concert key: E-flat
Style: Medium Afro Latin into uptempo swing
Recorded on June 27, 1989, and released on "Scorpio Rising" / Walter Davis Jr. (SteepleChase SCS1255).
- Piano - Walter Davis, Jr. [Solo Piano Arrangement available]
- Bass - Santi Debriano
- Drums - Ralph Peterson
Exclusive Audio: Kenny Drew, Jr.'s performance of Geoff Keezer's Solo Piano Arrangement.
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Concert key: G minor
Style: Latin (Afro-Cuban)
Recorded on March 29, 1955, and first released on "Afro-Cuban" / Kenny Dorham (Blue Note BLP 1535).
- Trumpet - Kenny Dorham [solo available]
- Tenor Sax - Hank Mobley
- Trombone - J.J. Johnson
- Baritone Sax - Cecil Payne
- Piano - Horace Silver
- Bass - Percy Heath
- Drums - Art Blakey
- Conga - Carlos "Patato" Valdes
- Cowbell - Richie Goldberg
Melody audio clip on this page; for solo audio clip, press Details.
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Medium swing
Recorded in May, 1946, and first released on a Eddie Davis 78 rpm (Haven 800)
- Tenor Sax - Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis
- Guitar - Bill DeArongo
- Piano - Sadik Hakim (Argonne Thornton)
- Bass - Gene Ramey
- Drums - Denzil Best
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Concert key: A-flat
Style: Medium up swing
Recorded in April, 1995, and released on "Almost Everything" / Don Friedman (Steeplechase SCCD1368).
- Piano - Don Friedman [Solo Piano Arrangement available]
- Bass - Ron McClure
- Drums - Matt Wilson
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Concert key: Gm
Style: Ballad or Bossa
- Vocal - Nancy Valentine
- Piano - Cecilia Coleman
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
There is no key indication because it's not really in a regular definable key. However, it definitely has a minor flavor and very interesting chord progression. Hear the bossa version on this page, press the Details button to hear the ballad.
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Vocal key: C
Style: Ballad
- Vocal - Nancy Valentine
- Piano - Cecilia Coleman
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
Bassist George Duvivier wrote this song (words and music) in the mid-1940s when he was a young man in his early 20s. The beautiful chord progression and melody certainly shows how deep he had already become, musically and harmonically, at that young age.
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Concert key: F
Style: Latin (Bossa)
Recorded on July 24 & 25, 1991, and released on "Megawatts" / Jeff "Tain" Watts (Sunnyside SSC 1128).
- Piano - Kenny Kirkland
- Bass - Charles Fambrough
- Drums - Jeff "Tain" Watts
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Concert key: C minor
Style: Medium swing
Recorded in July, 1991, and released on "Freddie Redd And His International Jazz Connection" (Fairplay 1).
- Trumpet - Maffy Falay
- Tenor Sax - Kristerr Andersson & Bernt Rosengren
- Piano - Freddie Redd
- Guitar - Anders Ullberg
- Bass - Torbjorm Hulcrantz
- Drums - Gilbert Matthews & Bengt Stark
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Medium up swing
Recorded on February 8, 1959, and first released as "Elmo Hope" on Hifijazz (J-616). Later released as "Elmo Hope Trio" on Contemporary Records (M 7620).
- Piano - Elmo Hope
- Bass - Jimmy Bond
- Drums - Frank Butler
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Concert key: E-flat
Style: Medium up Latin
First recorded on January 20, 1962, on "Easy Living" / Ike Quebec (Blue Note BST 84103)
- Tenor Sax - Ike Quebec
- Baritone Sax - Stanley Turrentine
- Trombone - Bennie Green
- Piano - Sonny Clark
- Bass - Milt Hinton
- Drums - Art Blakey
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Medium swing
Recorded on April 19, 1958, and first released on "Portrait Of Art Farmer" (Contemporary S 7027).
- Trumpet - Art Farmer [solo transcription]
- Piano - Hank Jones
- Bass - Addison Farmer
- Drums - Roy Haynes
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Concert key: G minor
Style: Medium up Latin (Afro-Cuban)
Recorded on March 29, 1955, and first released on "Afro-Cuban" / Kenny Dorham (Blue Note BLP 1535).
- Trumpet - Kenny Dorham
- Tenor Sax - Hank Mobley
- Trombone - J.J. Johnson
- Baritone Sax - Cecil Payne
- Piano - Horace Silver
- Bass - Oscar Pettiford
- Drums - Art Blakey
- Conga - Carlos "Patato" Valdes
- Claves - Richie Goldberg or Gigi Gryce (?)
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Concert key: F minor
Style: Medium swing
Recorded on April 15, 1960, and first released on "Booker Little" / Booker Little (Time M 52011).
- Trumpet - Booker Little [solo available]
- Piano - Wynton Kelly
- Bass - Scott La Faro
- Drums - Roy Haynes
Melody audio clip on this page; for solo audio clip, press Details.
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Vocal key: F
Style: Ballad
- Vocal - Nancy Valentine
- Piano - Cecilia Coleman
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
Pianist and composer Walter Davis, Jr. understood the power of lyrics and always knew the lyrics of the songs he played. He wrote quite a few songs himself, both words and music, that he never had a chance to record, like this lovely ballad.
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Singers' Corner feature
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Concert key: C
Style: Medium up swing
Recorded on February 15, 1963, and first released on "Jazz Concert" / George Shearing Quintet (Capitol ST 1992).
- Piano - George Shearing
- Vibes - Gary Burton
- Guitar - John Gray
- Bass - Bill Yancey
- Drums - Vernell Fournier
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Concert key: E-flat
Style: Medium swing
Recorded on June 9, 1953, and first released on a Lou Donaldson 78 rpm (Blue Note BN 1623). Later released on the "Clifford Brown Memorial Album" (Blue Note 7243 5 32141 2 8).
- Trumpet - Clifford Brown [solo available]
- Alto Sax - Lou Donaldson
- Piano - Elmo Hope
- Bass - Percy Heath
- Drums - Philly Joe Jones
Melody audio clip on this page; for solo audio clip, press Details.
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