Thread: What Are You Listening To?

i'm listening to donna lee, by charlie parker.

the speed is intense!! 230 bpms about!
I'm listening to it because i've got to play it on the sax for a lesson and try out to get in a jazz band! check it out if you have the time.

Originally Posted by bryce

i'm listening to donna lee, by charlie parker.

the speed is intense!! 230 bpms about!
I'm listening to it because i've got to play it on the sax for a lesson and try out to get in a jazz band! check it out if you have the time.

I dare say you'll find out a whole lot more about the tune here - Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Donna Lee).
According to what is written it was actually a Miles Davis composition based on the chords of (Back Home Again In) Indiana, a somewhat older Jazz Standard (circa 1917).

Originally Posted by Beach

I dare say you'll find out a whole lot more about the tune here - Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Donna Lee).
According to what is written it was actually a Miles Davis composition based on the chords of (Back Home Again In) Indiana, a somewhat older Jazz Standard (circa 1917).

really? interesting. miles davis has always been one of my favorites, it's what i started out on playing the sax as far as jazz goes.
have you ever played that song?
anywho, thank you!

Originally Posted by bryce

really? interesting. miles davis has always been one of my favorites, it's what i started out on playing the sax as far as jazz goes.
have you ever played that song?
anywho, thank you!

No mate! I'm a singer, although I do have a tape of the band that I used to sing with at Balmain (Sydney, Australia) doing Donna Lee back in the late eighties/early nineties from memory.
You made me think about the song otherwise however and I have tracked down my copy of Side By Side (Richie Cole and Phil Woods recorded 'live' at the Paramount Theatre in Denver in July 1980) which has a mindblowingly fast version of Donna Lee on it.

Mine is a CD I created from the original vinyl and therefore doesn't have the extra track on it.

wow! thank you!
it's always really inspiring to hear from professionals.. especially jazz and blues pros because, not being bias or anything, they often have the most knowledge of music theory, along with classical pros. bands today have no respect for the knowledge behind and what influenced the music.... "i just do what sounds cool" attitudes are much too common these days.


btw... listening to sing, sing, sing arranged bymike lewis, compossed by louis prima, and performed by willamette high school jazz band! (which i play in!)

Billie Holiday - When You're Smiling! from the V-Disks! (ps: we just released our first v-disk episode of our lost gold music podcast today!)

Ahmad Jamal's "Live at the Pershing" album.

John Mayall With Eric Clapton - Bluesbreakers


... Or the Beano Album, as it's affectionately known. This is the mono CD version.

60's Brit Blues at their best. Clapton before he discovered understatement...

Originally Posted by Tiggi

John Mayall With Eric Clapton - Bluesbreakers


... Or the Beano Album, as it's affectionately known. This is the mono CD version.

60's Brit Blues at their best. Clapton before he discovered understatement...

By the time this was released he had already moved on to form Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse with Steve Winwood, Paul Jones (Manfred Mann), Jack Bruce, Pete York and Ben Palmer prior to forming CREAM with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
It should also be noted that despite what is written about the authorship of Steppin' Out at Wikipedia, it most definitely was penned by Peter 'Memphis Slim' Chatman and not James Bracken.

Count Basie & His Orchestra - April in Paris



&

Count Basie - King of Swing


Bit of a major Jazz-purchasing push going on Chez Tiggi...

These two are part of a 2-disc set which contains four original Basie albums delivered from Amazon for a total of £2.98 (That's very cheap, work it out...).

I've ordered eight sets from this series, plus box sets from Miles, & Bird (Watch this space).

Anyway, these two are fine big-band swing records.