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"Salt Peanuts" is a contrafact of "I Got Rhythm" by George and Ira Gershwin: it has the same 32-bar AABA structure and harmony, but its melody is different. [3] It is a simple piece – "a four-measure riff phrase played twice in each A section, and a slightly more complex bridge (which incorporates the ubiquitous ♭ 9–7–8 figure twice)".
"Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" [39] is a song composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, with lyrics by Lee Gaines. "Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)" [40] [41] [42] is a song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Lee Gaines. "Salt Peanuts" [43] [44] is a jazz composition by Kenny Clarke and Dizzy Gillespie.
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...
Joe Cool's Blues is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis that was released in 1995. The album reached a peak position of No. 3 on Billboard ' s Top Jazz Albums chart. [3] The album consists of a series of songs inspired by the Peanuts comic strip and television specials.
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet which was released in July or August 1961 through Prestige Records. [1] [2] The recording was made at two sessions on May 11 and October 26, 1956 that produced four albums: Steamin, Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.
(The songs are "Salt Peanuts (The Mr. Peanut Chronicles)" and "All The Shadows Of Nuff") The 2009 John Foti album, Everybody's Coming to Town includes the track "I'm Just a Boy (feat. Mocean Worker)" Although it is not on the movie's soundtrack CD, the song "Intothinair" is featured in the film The Bourne Supremacy during the Moscow club scene.
Jazz at Massey Hall is a live album released in December 1953 by jazz combo The Quintet through Debut Records. It was recorded on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto , Canada. Credited to "the Quintet", the jazz group was composed of five leading "modern" players of the day: Dizzy Gillespie , Charlie Parker , Bud Powell , Charles Mingus , and ...