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"I Won't Dance" is a song with music by Jerome Kern that has become a jazz standard. The song has two different sets of lyrics: the first written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach in 1934, and second written by Dorothy Fields (though Jimmy McHugh was also credited) in 1935.
King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman; King of the Jazz Guitar: Django Reinhardt; King of the Jukebox: Louis Jordan; King of Swing: Benny Goodman a.k.a. "the Patriarch of the Clarinet", "the Professor", "Swing's Senior Statesman" Klook-Mop or Klook: Kenny Clarke; Knife (The): Pepper Adams
For a looser, more comprehensive A-Z list of jazz standards and tunes which have been covered by multiple artists, see the List of jazz tunes Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).
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A live recording of "A Night in Tunisia" was made in January 1944 of the Gillespie-Pettiford Quintet at the Onyx Club in New York City.[10]Sarah Vaughan, backed by Gillespie, recorded a vocal version of "Interlude" on 31 December 1944, which was issued on the Continental label in 1946.
The song's jazz popularity was established by Benny Goodman's 1941 recording with singer Peggy Lee. Coleman Hawkins made a popular jazz version in 1943, and Charlie Parker recorded it as a ballad in 1947. [60] "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" [4] [61] [62] was composed by Victor Young with lyrics by Bing Crosby and Ned Washington ...
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.
"Afro Blue" was the first jazz standard built on a typical African 3:2 cross-rhythm, or hemiola. [2] The song begins with the bass repeatedly playing six cross-beats per measure of 12 8 or six cross-beats per four main beats—6:4 (two cells of 3:2).