Early autumn

This article explains a composition by Ralf Burns. For the short story of the same name by Langston Hughes, see Early Autumn (Langston Hughes) .

Early Autumn is a composition by Ralph Burns (with the participation of Woody Herman and Barbara Belle) with a text by Johnny Mercer from 1948. The modern jazz composition has 32 bars and is characterized by the song form AABA with descending, sequence-like melodies.

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His solo on Early Autum in the Big Band of Woody Herman, which was released by Capitol Records in 1949 , helped Stan Getz to breakthrough and in the same year gave him success in the down beat reader poll and international recognition. The composition was recorded in 1949 by Herman with the soloist Getz under the title "Summer Sequence (Part 4)" for Columbia Records .

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In the same year Herb Ellis played the song in the trio The Soft Winds with Lou Carter and Johnny Frigo . The song was also recorded by Ella Fitzgerald , Coleman Hawkins , Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis, George Shearing and Ben Webster .

• Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook (1964)
• Jo Stafford (1952)
• Mel Tormé Night at the Concord Pavilion (1990)
• Raya Yarbrough Raya Yarbrough (2006)

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 4th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ted Gioia Woody Herman with Stan Getz: Early Autumn ( jazz.com ) ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2010 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. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Alan Kurtz The Soft Winds: Early Autumn ( jazz.com ( memento of the original dated February 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this hint. 
3. ↑ Ted Gioia Raya Yarbrough: Early Autumn ( jazz.com ) ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2010 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.