Bye bye Blackbird
Bye Bye Blackbird is a composition by Ray Henderson , with lyrics by Mort Dixon . The song was released in 1926.
The children's song "Bye Bye Blackbird" is a standard of popular music; its first version was recorded in 1926 by Gene Austin and reached first place in the charts and stayed in the charts for twelve weeks. Other recordings from the same year by Nick Lucas, Bennie Krueger and Leo Reisman also sold well. In 1948 Russ Morgan and His Orchestra also made it into the charts with the song.
Until 1950 the song was not very popular with jazz singers. In addition to the numerous vocal versions by Eddie Cantor , Carmen McRae , Judy Garland , Etta Jones , Nina Simone , Sarah Vaughan and Esther Phillips , “Bye Bye Blackbird” also became a jazz standard ; John Coltrane built on the classic in November 1962 "a brilliant, almost free improvisation". Coltrane received the posthumous 1981 Grammy Award for the best jazz instrumental recording. The title was long in the program of the classic Miles Davis Quintet; Coltrane had played it there many times, such as on the album 'Round About Midnight in 1957 and at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. In April 1961 Davis took the song again, this time with Hank Mobley on saxophone. Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson played Bye Bye Black Bird in 1961; other versions are by Albert Ayler , Roland Kirk , Milt Jackson , Sonny Stitt , Ray Brown , Ahmad Jamal , Roy Eldridge and Clark Terry / Bob Brookmeyer . In 1975 Rahsaan Roland Kirk used the song several times on his concept album The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color .
Rickie Lee Jones interpreted the song in 1991, accompanied by Joe Henderson on her album Pop Pop . Keith Jarrett and his trio recorded an album with this title as an obituary for Miles Davis. Other more contemporary interpretations came from Joe Cocker , Jacky Terrasson , Fred Hersch and Till Brönner . The song was also used in films such as Sleepless in Seattle or with a different text “Bye Bye Tatort” sung by Manfred Krug and Charles Brauer in the last crime scene crime story , which the two played together as television commissioners. Paul McCartney released his version in 2012 on the album Kisses on the Bottom .
An instrumental version of "Bye bye Blackbird" was published 1959-1960 by Johnny and the Hurricanes.
literature
- Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8
- Bielefeld Jazz Catalog, 1988 and 2002
- Gerd Filtgen, Michael Ausserbauer: John Coltrane: his life, his music, his records . Schaftlach, Oreos Verlag 1989, ISBN 3-923657-02-1
Web links
Bye bye Blackbird at jazzstandards.com
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Bye Bye Blackbird by Gene Austin . In: Second Hand Songs . November 7th, 2015. Archived from the original on November 27th, 2005. 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. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- ↑ Filtgen, p. 169
- ^ Grammy Winners - The 1981 Music Awards . In: Popculture Madness . November 7th, 2015. Archived from the original on September 28th, 2011. 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. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- ↑ on the album Organic ; he had already sung the piece on With a Little Help from My Friends
- ↑ [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108160/soundtrack Schlaflos in Seattle (1993) soundtracks] . In: IMdB . November 7, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
