Tickle toe
Tickle Toe (also Tickle-Toe ) is a jazz title by Lester Young . The composition, which was published by Bregman Vocco & Conn Inc, recorded the tenor saxophonist for the first time on March 19, 1940 with the Count Basie Orchestra . Lester Young called it his best composition.
Origin and first recording
The title Tickle Toe was named after a dancer in Kansas City. The piece is in a minor key and is played up tempo . Tickle Toe is a typical head arrangement ; According to Phil Schaap, Lester Young took over the second six-bar improvisation passage by Bix Beiderbecke from the second take of When (composed by Walter Donaldson ), which Beiderbecke had recorded with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra on March 12, 1928, and worked on the final part of his composition Tickle toe off. Martin Williams believes Young borrowed the title from Duke Ellington's 1925 number Jig Walk , with a melodic line in eighth notes.
Tickle Toe was part of the band repertoire of the Basie Orchestra at the beginning of 1940. a. also played at their appearances in Boston , where the first radio recordings were made. On March 19, the orchestra recorded the track for Columbia Records in the studio; the arranger was Andy Gibson .
Further recordings and edits
Lester Young played the track with his own short-lived formation in 1941 after leaving the Basie band in late 1940 at the WNYC American Music Festival. Shad Collins (trumpet), Nick Fenton (bass), John Collins (guitar) and Harold Doc West (drums) played with “Prez” . In doing so, Young broke with the traditional theme-solo-theme sequence; Tickle Toe and the also played Taxi War Dance begin with solos and end with band riffs .
Further recordings of Tickle Toe were first recorded in 1950 by Zoot Sims and in Europe by Kristian Bergheim also in 1950 with a Norwegian all-star big band. In the following years the title became a popular standard in jazz . a. by the versions of Benny Carter , Bob Cooper , Johnny Griffin / Eddie Lockjaw Davis ( Tough Tenors 1960), Illinois Jacquet , Quincy Jones , Lee Konitz / Richie Kamuca , Gene Krupa , Marian McPartland , Butch Miles / Howard Alden , Art Pepper , Howard Rumsey , Cy Touff / Sandy Mosse , Allan Vaché / Harry Allen , Warren Vaché / Alan Barnes , Art Van Damme / Johnny Smith , Frank Wess , Bob Wilber and Thilo Wolf .
The discographer Tom Lord lists 138 versions of the title. Les Double Six recorded a vocal version of Tickle Toe in 1961, arranged by Mimi Perrin ; Jon Hendricks sang it in 1958, accompanied by the Basie band, appeared on the album VIP Jazz 22 by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross ( Roulette Records ).
In November 1940, Charlie Parker took over passages from the Young composition with Jay McShann in a version of the Spencer Williams number I've Found a New Baby from 1926. The timbral lightness of the recording influenced the West Coast jazz of trumpeters in the late 1940s Kenny Dorham based his title Scandia Skies (1963) on the Lester Young composition.
Woody Allen used the original recording in the soundtrack of his film Stardust Memories ' (1980). The song is played by Joshua Redman (in the role of Lester Young) in Robert Altman's documentary Jazz '34 .
The Lester Young's title is neither the same rock'n'roll -number of Paul Gayten (1958) nor with The Tickle Toe (1917) by Otto Harbach and Louis Hirsch (1887-1924) from the musical Going Up confuse .
Appreciation
Lewis Porter described in his Lester Young's biography Tickle Toe next to Lester Leaps In as "probably the most complex issue that he has ever recorded" ( " the most intricate theme he ever recorded "). For Darren Müller, both Lester Leaps In (1939) and Tickle Toe illustrate "Young's serpentine melodic sensibility, which was unusual for the swing era, and opened the door for younger players to break the clichés of big band play ."
The Cambridge Music Guide takes up Basie's contribution to Tickle Toe and highlights his “powerful boogie-rhythm” piano solo, “sharp as sparkling glass, broken by the explosive calls of the brass chords”.
Discographic notes
The two radio recordings of the title from March 12 and March 15, 1944 appeared on the LP Historical Prez - Lester Young 1940-44 ; The original recording was published as 78 by Columbia (35521), with the Gus Kahn / Ted Fiorito number I Never Knew as the B-side. In Great Britain the shellac record was published by Parlophone (R 2759, in The 1940 Super Rhythm Style Series No. 119).
Web links
literature
- Chuck Sher: The All-Jazz Real Book, Eb Version . AMA-Verlag, Sher Music Co., 2008 ISBN 9781883217358
Individual evidence
- ^ Douglas Henry Daniels: Lester Leaps in , pp. 219 ff.
- ↑ Sammy Price : What Do They Want ?: A Jazz Autobiography , p. 31
- ↑ Tickle Toe
- ↑ Wolfgang Sandner , Reimer von Essen : Handbook of Music in the 20th Century - Volume 9 , Laaber-Verlag, 2005, page 32
- ^ Phil Schaap: Little-Known Facts About Lester Young
- ↑ Martin Williams: The Jazz Tradition , p. 125
- ↑ On March 12, 1940, Tickle Toe is documented in a radio recording of the band from the Southland Theater Restaurant in Boston.
- ↑ Scoring : Count Basie and His Orchestra: Buck Clayton (tp), Harry Sweets Edison , Ed Lewis , Al Kilian (tp), Dicky Wells , Vic Dickenson , Dan Minor (tb), Earle Warren (as), Lester Young, Buddy Tate (ts), Jack Washington (as, bar), Count Basie (p), Freddie Green (git), Walter Page (kb), Jo Jones (dr). See Bielefeld catalog 2001.
- ^ The Modernist Style of Lester Young
- ^ Dave Gelly: Being Prez: The Life and Music of Lester Young , Tunbridge Wells 1984, p. 76
- ↑ Bassist Bill Crow , who was participating in the session , later recalled that Marian McPartland, who had only recently come to the US, had recognizable difficulties playing the swing number; see. Paul de Barros : Shall We Play That One Together ?: The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend
- ^ Tickle Toe at Jazzstandards.com
- ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography online (accessed September 21, 2013)
- ↑ Carl Woideck: Charlie Parker: His Music and Life , p 89
- ↑ Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society, edited by Gabriel Solis, Bruno Nettl, p. 31
- ↑ Dave Oliphant: Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State , p. 52
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949818/
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/Paul-Gayten-Windy-Tickle-Toe/release/1483180
- ↑ Lewis Porter: Lester Young , Twayne, Boston 1985, (revised new edition University of Michigan Press 2005), p. 39.
- ↑ Darren Mueller in Jazz.com ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Stanley Sadie, Alison Latham: The Cambridge Music Guide , 1990, p. 518
