All the Things You Are

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All the Things You Are is a song from the Broadway - Musical Very Warm for May , composed by Jerome Kern with the text of Oscar Hammerstein from 1939. He became a popular jazz standard of swing and modern jazz .

The title

The composition has the form AA'BA ". The modulatory demanding theme with 36 bars leads through the most distant keys: The basic key is A flat major, but the soloist becomes C major, E flat major, G major and E major before he is somewhat surprisingly back in A flat major.

The song was given a new introduction by Dizzy Gillespie , which for many modern jazz musicians is part of the composition. It served as a template for improvisation for many bebop musicians ; the distribution of a version that Gillespie had recorded for Paramount in 1946 , was forbidden by Kern's heirs because the interpreter had deviated too far from the original melody. Other interpretations also diverged so far from the original that they could give the piece a new title - for example Charlie Parker , who called his piece Bird of Paradise in 1947 , but also the title Prince Albert by Kenny Dorham and Charge Account by Red Rodney . The bebop musicians changed the title, as can be heard in many performances: on the one hand the short introduction and the end, which parodies Rachmaninoff's Prelude op. 3 no.2 ; on the other hand, an interpolation of Donkey's Song from Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite . Charles Mingus alluded to Claude Debussy's Clair de lune .

reception

Although the musical was not economically successful and was canceled after 59 performances, the song proved to be a hit. Tommy Dorsey was in the charts for thirteen weeks with the piece, interpreted by his singer Jack Leonard , in 1939/1940 and reached # 1. In 1940 Artie Shaw was able to follow up on this success with his big band and singer Helen Forrest (# 8), followed in the same year by Frankie Masters and His Orchestra with singer Harlan Rogers (# 14). In the musical film Broadway Rhythm from 1943, the song was sung by Ginny Simms . Frank Sinatra's recording from 1945 hit # 1 on the album charts in 1946 (as part of his first album The Voice of Frank Sinatra ).

Coleman Hawkins discovered the value of the composition as an instrumental version early on and recorded it several times - initially in 1944, but also in meetings with Bud Powell (1960) and Sonny Rollins (1963). The composition then belonged to the classical repertoire of bebop and was used by many modern jazz musicians such as Chet Baker , Clifford Brown , Dave Brubeck (1953), Bill Evans , Tal Farlow , Erroll Garner , Stan Getz , Johnny Griffin , Lionel Hampton , Hans Koller (1953), Lee Konitz , Thelonious Monk , Walter Norris (1998), Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , Alexander von Schlippenbach , Bud Shank , Martial Solal , Billy Taylor , Lennie Tristano and Ben Webster . A recording by Baden Powell from 1967 emphasizes the harmonic and melodic affinity of the song with the music of the Baroque.

In addition to appearing in the musicals Very Warm For May (1939) and Broadway Rhythm, the song was used in the film A Letter For Evie . The song was also featured in the 2005 comedy Mrs. Henderson Presents , where Judi Dench played the lead role. It was sung by Will Young .

Important recordings

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Web links

annotation

  1. ↑ who modified it to All You Things You C #
  2. ↑ Alexander Schlippenbach used motifs from the title on his album Twelve Tone Tales

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  • "ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE" (1939) ". wicn.org "
  • "Jerome Kern". Songwriters Hall of Fame "
  • "All the Things You Are (1939)". Jazz standards "
  • "Shining Hour overview". Allmusic.com. https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000317301 .