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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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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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: C and D
Style: Medium swing
Recorded on October 5, 2007, by Judy Niemack for jazzleadsheets.com.
- Vocal - Judy Niemack
- Trumpets - Don Sickler
- Piano - Norman Simmons
- Bass - John Webber
- Drums - Victor Lewis
- Arranger - Don Sickler
This is a great Johnny Griffin title, fun to sing with Judy Niemack's lyric.
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Concert key: A-flat
Style: Ballad
Recorded in October and November, 1988, by Rachel Gould on A Sip Of Your Touch / Riccardo Del Fra (Ida IDACD 021)
- Vocal - Rachel Gould
- Bass - Riccardo del Fra
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Vocal key: B-flat
Style: Ballad
Recorded on October 23, 2004, by Rachel Gould for jazzleadsheets.com
- Vocal - Rachel Gould
- Piano - Cecilia Coleman
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
The lead sheet shows how expertly master vocalist/lyricist Mark Murphy crafted his lyric to fit the beautiful ballad melody of Fritz Pauer's instrumental composition Sound Within An Empty Room.
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Medium Latin
Recorded on November 23, 2002, and released on "Tina May Sings The Ray Bryant Songbook" (33 Records 33JAZZ 150)
- Vocal - Tina May
- Piano - Ray Bryant
- Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Alto Sax - Bobby Porcelli
- Tenor Sax - Patience Higgins
- Baritone Sax - Jay Brandford
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
- Arranger - Don Sickler
This is the lyric version of Ray Bryant's instrumental Cuban Fantasy. Ray Bryant's been a fan of Tina May's singing since they first met in Paris in 1997. They collaborated in a wonderful project, Tina May Sings The Ray Bryant Songbook, with Tina writing lyrics and singing. The album is a definitive recording of Ray Bryant's compositions with lyrics sung and mostly written by Tina with arrangements by Don Sickler.
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Vocal key: G minor
Style: Bossa
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
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Medium swing
Recorded on July 24, 2004, and released on "Wishing On The Moon" / Meredith d'Ambrosio (Sunnyside SSC1159)
- Vocal - Meredith d'Ambrosio
- muted Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Piano - Cecilia Coleman
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
- Arranger - Don Sickler
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Concert key: B-flat minor (phrygian)
Style: Medium groove
Recorded on April 3, 2010, by Judy Niemack for jazzleadsheets.com
- Voice - Judy Niemack
- Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Guitar - Jeanfrançois Prins
- Piano - Michael Cochrane
- Bass - Daryl Johns
- Drums - Steve Johns
- Arranger - Don Sickler
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Concert key: C minor
Style: Bossa
Recorded on November 23, 2002, and released on "Tina May Sings The Ray Bryant Songbook" (33 Records 33JAZZ 150)
- Vocal - Tina May
- Piano - Ray Bryant
- Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Flute - Bobby Porcelli
- Clarinet - Jay Brandford
- Bass Clarinet - Patience Higgins
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
- Arranger - Don Sickler
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Concert key: B-flat
Style: Calypso
Recorded on November 22, 2002, and released on "Tina May Sings The Ray Bryant Songbook" (33 Records 33JAZZ 150)
- Vocal - Tina May
- Piano - Ray Bryant
- Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Alto Sax - Bobby Porcelli
- Tenor Sax - Patience Higgins
- Baritone Sax - Jay Brandford
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
- Arranger - Don Sickler
Ray Bryant's been a fan of Tina May's singing since they first met in Paris in 1997. They collaborated in a wonderful project, Tina May Sings The Ray Bryant Songbook, with Tina writing lyrics and singing. The album is a definitive recording of Ray Bryant's compositions with lyrics sung and mostly written by Tina with arrangements by Don Sickler.
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Vocal key: F minor
Style: Latin Lament
Recorded on May 20, 1964, and first released on "Bittersweet" / Carmen McRae (Focus SD 334).
- Vocal - Carmen McRae
- Guitar - Mundell Lowe
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Vocal key: D minor
Style: Latin (bossa)
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Recorded in December, 2002, and first released on "Blue Muse" / Kenny Burrell (Concord CCD 2191-2).
- Vocal, Guitar - Kenny Burrell
- Piano - Tom Ranier
- Bass - Roberto Miranda
- Drums - Sherman Ferguson
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Vocal key: B-flat
Style: Ballad
Recorded on October 1, 2004, and released on "Dedicated To You" / Gloria Cooper (Origin 82450)
- Vocal - Gloria Cooper
- Flugelhorn - Don Sickler
- Tenor Sax - Wayne Escoffery
- Piano - Gloria Cooper
- Guitar - Freddie Bryant
- Bass - Tim Givens
- Drums - Vince Cherico
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