I hear music

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I Hear Music is a pop song written by Frank Loesser (music) and Burton Lane (lyrics) and released in 1940. The song became a popular jazz standard .

Loesser and Lane wrote I Hear Music for the Paramount film Dancing on a Dime (1940). The musicians who covered the song back in 1940 included Billie Holiday (OKeh), Gene Krupa (OKeh, with Irene Daye , vocals) and Larry Clinton (Victor, with Peggy Mann). Even Bing Crosby and Russ Morgan (Decca 24521) played a song.

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 162 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by John Dankworth , George Shearing , Art Van Damme , Oscar Peterson , Jackie Cain , Chris Connor , Marian McPartland , Hampton Hawes , Bud Shank , Nat King Cole , Stan Kenton , Betty Glamann , Peggy Lee , Anita O'Day , Ella Fitzgerald , Bud Powell , Stéphane Grappelli and Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski / Wojciech Karolak .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 169
  2. ↑ Basic information at jazzstandards.com
  3. ↑ Billie Holiday was accompanied at the session on September 12, 1940 by Roy Eldridge (tp), Don Redman , Georgie Auld (as), Don Byas , Jimmy Hamilton (ts), Teddy Wilson (p), John Collins (git), Al Hall (kb) and Kenny Clarke (dr).
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)