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"April in Paris" is a popular song composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by Yip Harburg in 1932 for the Broadway musical Walk a Little Faster. The original 1933 hit was performed by Freddy Martin , and the 1952 remake (inspired by the movie of the same name ) was by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra , whose version made the Cashbox Top 50.
April in Paris is an album by pianist/bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra, his first released on the Verve label, recorded in 1955 and 1956. [1] [2] [3] [4]The title track was included in the soundtrack of the 2008 video game release Grand Theft Auto IV on the fictitious in-game jazz music radio station "JNR 108.5 (Jazz Nation Radio)".
The song was first popularized in 1957 by Count Basie's instrumental recording for his album April in Paris. Sarah Vaughan sang the first vocal version with the Basie orchestra in 1961. A vocalese cover of this song was released by The Manhattan Transfer for their 1981 album Mecca for Moderns, which would earn them a Grammy Award.
The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984.
As composer and arranger with Count Basie. The Count! (Clef, 1952 [1955]) Dance Session (Clef, 1953) Dance Session Album#2 (Clef, 1954) Basie (Clef, 1954) April in Paris (Verve, 1956) The Atomic Mr. Basie (Roulette, 1957) aka Basie and E=MC 2; Basie Plays Hefti (Roulette, 1958) On My Way & Shoutin' Again! (Verve, 1962) As composer and arranger ...
The Count Basie Orchestra was founded in 1934 in Kansas City by the legendary jazz band leader William “Count” Basie. The band, with 15 to 18 members, continued after his death in 1984 and ...
"April in Paris" (song), a 1932 popular standard written by Vernon Duke and E. Y. Harburg; April in Paris, a 1952 musical starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger; April in Paris, a 1957 album by the Count Basie Orchestra "April in Paris," a 1962 short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, first anthologized in The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
The melody derived from band members' riffs—Basie rarely wrote down musical ideas, so Eddie Durham and Buster Smith helped him crystallize his ideas. The original 1937 recording of the tune by Basie and his band is noted for the saxophone work of Herschel Evans and Lester Young, trumpet by Buck Clayton, Walter Page on bass, and Basie himself on piano. [1]