I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

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I'm Getting Sentimental Over You is a jazz standard by George Bassman , who wrote the music, and Ned Washington , who wrote the lyrics.

background

The song was written by Bassman for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and over time has become its signature song. Dorsey first played the song in 1932 in a version arranged by Noni Bernardi, the orchestra's saxophonist. The first recording took place in September 1935, with Tommy Dorsey as solo trombonist. A second recording followed in October 1935, the arrangement of which was used by the orchestra for subsequent recordings. Dorsey's expert breath control, especially in the upper registers, and special phrasing added to the grace of the piece. Frank Sinatra sang the piece with the Dorsey Orchestra and also recorded it on the album I remember Tommy after Dorsey's death in 1956. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You became one of the catchiest and most preferred pieces of the swing era. The song was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame .

Other known recordings

The best-known versions are likely to come from Thelonious Monk , who systematically reworked the song (documented on his posthumous album The Transformer ) and performed it repeatedly at concerts, recorded for albums such as Tokyo Concerts , Live at the It Club and Monk in Tokyo . The Monk recording with Charlie Rouse on Live at The Village Gate called Scott Yanow at Allmusic simply unforgettable . Other versions come from the band They Might Be Giants , which was recorded in the mid-80s and released in 1997 on the album Then: The Earlier Years . Even Herb Alpert , Maynard Ferguson and Urbie Green recorded the piece.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Bassman Biography . www.jazzbiographies.com. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
  2. ↑ All Music Guide to Jazz, by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine (Google Books) . books.google.de. Retrieved July 19, 2009.

Web links

literature

  • Peter J. Levinson, Tommy Dorsey: Livin 'in a Great Big Way: a Biography , Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press, c2005 ( ISBN 978-0-306-81111-1 )