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 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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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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Concert key: F
Style: Medium up swing
Recorded on November 5, 1956, and first released on "Introducing Lee Morgan - With Hank Mobley's Quintet" / Hank Mobley (Savoy MG 12091).
- Trumpet - Lee Morgan
- Tenor Sax - Hank Mobley
- Piano - Hank Jones
- Bass - Doug Watkins
- Drums - Art Taylor
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Vocal key: B-flat
Style: Medium swing
Recorded on October 1, 2004, and released on "Dedicated To You" / Gloria Cooper (Origin 82450)
- Vocal, Piano - Gloria Cooper
- Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Tenor Sax - Wayne Escoffery
- Guitar - Freddie Bryant
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
- Arranger - Don Sickler
This lyric speaks of a budding romance between two people whose eyes, we ultimately discover in a nice bit of surprise, are the same color. L. Aziza Miller wrote the delightful lyric to Tommy Turrentine's instrumental Glo's Theme.
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Medium up swing
Recorded on May 19, 1954, and first released on the 10 inch LP "Art Farmer Quintet" (Prestige PRLP 181). Later released on the LP "When Farmer Met Gryce" / Art Farmer (Prestige PRLP 7085) which was a combination of two Art Farmer sessions, one in 1954 and one in 1955.
- Trumpet - Art Farmer
- Alto Sax - Gigi Gryce
- Piano - Horace Silver
- Bass - Percy Heath
- Drums - Kenny Clarke
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Concert key: F minor
Style: Medium swing
Recorded on May 26, 1955, and first released on the 10 inch LP "Art Farmer Quintet" (Prestige PRLP 209). Later released on the LP "When Farmer Met Gryce" / Art Farmer (Prestige PRLP 7085) which was a combination of two Art Farmer sessions, one in 1954 and one in 1955.
- Trumpet - Art Farmer
- Alto Sax - Gigi Gryce
- Piano - Freddie Redd
- Bass - Addison Farmer
- Drums - Art Taylor
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Uptempo swing
Recorded on August 6, 1954 and first released on "Clifford Brown And Max Roach" / Clifford Brown and Max Roach (EmArcy MG 36036).
- Trumpet - Clifford Brown [2 solo takes available]
- Tenor Sax - Harold Land
- Piano - Richie Powell
- Bass - George Morrow
- Drums - Max Roach
Melody audio clip on this page; for solo audio clip, press Details.
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Concert key: A-flat
Style: Medium up swing
Recorded on July 16, 1961, as released on "Eric Dolphy & Booker Little Memorial Album" (Prestige PR 7334).
- Trumpet - Booker Little
- Bass Clarinet - Eric Dolphy
- Piano - Mal Waldron
- Bass - Richard Davis
- Drums - Ed Blackwell
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Uptempo swing
Recorded on July, 21, 1957, and first released on the LP "Dial S For Sonny" / Sonny Clark (Blue Note BLP 1570)
- Trumpet - Art Farmer
- Trombone - Curtis Fuller
- Tenor Sax - Hank Mobley
- Piano - Sonny Clark
- Bass - Wilbur Ware
- Drums - Louis Hayes
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Medium up swing
Recorded on September 6, 1946, and first issued as both sides of the Savoy 78 rpm: "Boppin' A Riff pt.1&2" / The Be-Bop Boys (Savoy 588). Next issued on 10" LP "New Sound In Modern Music" (various artists - Savoy MG 9012), session listed by Savoy as "Fats Navarro/Gil Fuller's Modernists."
- Trumpet - Fats Navarro
- Trumpet - Kenny Dorham
- Alto Sax - Sonny Stitt
- Tenor Sax - Morris Lane
- Piano - Bud Powell
- Bass - Ed DeVertoil
- Drums - Kenny Clarke
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Medium up swing
Recorded on June 18, 1965, and first released on "Dippin" / Hank Mobley (Blue Note BLP 4209)
- Trumpet - Lee Morgan
- Tenor Sax - Hank Mobley
- Piano - Harold Mabern
- Bass - Larry Ridley
- Drums - Billy Higgins
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