Hot House (jazz standard)

Hot House is a jazz standard composed by Tadd Dameron in 1945 . Unlike many of his other compositions, Hot House is based on the harmony sequences of a well-known song, What Is This Thing Called Love? .

Features of the song

Structurally, Hot House is an "innovative adaptation of the Porter song: If this still uses the AABA form , Dameron chose the AA'BA form - actually an ABCA form, since A and A 'are only harmoniously similar." The melody is conspicuously chromatic and could even be understood as a “chromatic fantasy in bebop ”. "The melody line, which consists predominantly of eight- tone chains , makes heavy use of transitional tones and often only touches the basic tones of the respective harmony briefly or not at all."

First recordings

Dameron wrote the piece for one of the bebop's first recording sessions, held on May 11, 1945 with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie ; this recording is considered a “milestone in jazz history .” Parker played the piece over and over again over the next few years, most recently on May 15, 1953 in the legendary Jazz at Massey Hall concert .

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As a result, musicians as diverse as Lionel Hampton , Dexter Gordon , Chaka Khan , Steve Lacy with Mal Waldron , Larry Coryell and James Moody recorded the piece. In 1959 John Coltrane recorded Fifth House , which is based on the Hot House harmonies that he had recorded in 1946.

In some interpretations of the piece, What Is This Thing Called Love? and hot house , for example by playing the Porter theme at the beginning of the piece and closing with the Dameron theme after the improvisations of the individual musicians.

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 .
Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. 3rd, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 .

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Song portrait

Individual evidence

↑ See Reclam's Jazz Guide
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hans-Jürgen Schaal, Jazz-Standards , pp. 181f.
↑ Cf. Lawrence O. Koch Yardbird Suite: a compendium of the music and life of Charlie Parker 1988, p. 53f., And Ira Gitler The Masters of Bebop: a listener's guide 2001, p. 267
↑ See Charlie Parker's discography
^ Lewis Porter John Coltrane: His Life and Music University of Michigan Press 1998, p. 166

[1] See Reclam's Jazz Guide

[HJS-2] Hans-Jürgen Schaal, Jazz-Standards , pp. 181f.

[3] Cf. Lawrence O. Koch Yardbird Suite: a compendium of the music and life of Charlie Parker 1988, p. 53f., And Ira Gitler The Masters of Bebop: a listener's guide 2001, p. 267

[4] See Charlie Parker's discography

[5] Lewis Porter John Coltrane: His Life and Music University of Michigan Press 1998, p. 166