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"Charleston" rhythm, simple rhythm commonly used in comping. [1] Play example ⓘ. In jazz, comping (an abbreviation of accompaniment; [2] or possibly from the verb, to "complement") is the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ), guitar players, or drummers use to support a musician's improvised solo or melody lines.
Au Privave" is a bebop jazz standard composed by Charlie Parker in 1951. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Parker recorded "Au Privave" on January 17, 1951, for the American record label Verve . The origin of the title is unknown ("Privave" is not a French word), though Parker is known to have played with words when naming his compositions. [ 3 ]
The composition has become a jazz standard, covered by many artists. [3] [4] Due to its speed and rapid transition through the three keys of B major, G major and E♭ major, [5] Vox described the piece as "the most feared song in jazz" and "one of the most challenging chord progressions to improvise over" in the jazz repertoire. [6]
In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. This next section is most often the repetition of the previous section or the entire piece or song. [1] The turnaround may lead back to this section either harmonically, as a chord progression, or melodically.
Henderson wrote the composition at the age of 15 in a Latin style but later modified it with a bossa nova rhythm. [2] It was recorded by Henderson on subsequent albums, including an uptempo version named "Não Me Esqueça"—"Do Not Forget Me" in Portuguese—on In Pursuit of Blackness and an arrangement named "Recuérdame" (Spanish) on the Big Band album.
SOLOS: the jazz sessions is a 39-part television music profile/performance series produced in Canada by Original Spin Media. Each episode features complete musical pieces, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage with some of today's most notable jazz artists.
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World War II flying ace Major (later Brigadier General) Thomas L. Hayes named his P-51 Frenesi after the song. [8] He said it was a tribute to his wife Louise, for the song they listened to; he believed the song's name translated as "Love Me Tenderly". The Artie Shaw recording was used in the soundtrack of the 1980 film Raging Bull. [9]