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"Black and Tan Fantasy" is a 1927 jazz composition by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley. The song was recorded several times by Ellington and his Cotton Club band in 1927 for the Brunswick , Victor , and Okeh record labels.
A group of Black and Tans and Auxiliaries outside the London and North Western Hotel in Dublin following an IRA attack, April 1921 "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" is an Irish rebel song, written by Dominic Behan, which criticises and satirises pro-British Irishmen and the actions of the British army in its colonial wars.
The orchestra's performance of “Black and Tan Fantasy” in the film is very different from other traditional recordings. It is the only version in which Barney Bigard plays a solo using the clarinet as the melodic instrument during the song. To express the sadness of Fredi's death, Ellington uses music by the Hall Johnson choir.
Black and Tan is a 1929 short film written and directed by Dudley Murphy. [32] It is set during the contemporary Harlem Renaissance in New York City. It is the first film to feature Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing as a jazz band, and was also the film debut of actress Fredi Washington.
"The Best Things In Life Are Free" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Black And Tan Fantasy" m. Duke Ellington "Bless This House" w. Helen Taylor m. May Brahe "Blue Skies" w.m. Irving Berlin "Broken Hearted" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern.
The earliest recorded usage of the term black and tan in the drink context is from 1881, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the American magazine Puck. [5] The first recorded British use of the term to describe a drink is from 1889. [5] However, the name "black and tan" is not used in Ireland as a term for
The following is a list of works by P. D. Q. Bach, a fictitious Bach family member, the alter ego of composer Peter Schickele.The first section lists, in alphabetical order, those works which have been recorded, are listed in the annotated catalogue of P. D. Q. Bach music in The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, and/or are listed on the Theodore Presser website.
The Blues for Alice changes, Bird changes, Bird Blues, or New York Blues changes, is a chord progression, often named after Charlie Parker ("Bird"), which is a variation of the twelve-bar blues. The progression uses a series of sequential ii–V or secondary ii–V progressions, and has been used in pieces such as Parker's "Blues for Alice".