In Your Own Sweet Way

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In Your Own Sweet Way is a jazz track written by Dave Brubeck and released in 1955 by Derry Music . His wife Iola Brubeck later wrote a text for the song composed in 1952 or 1953 . The song became a jazz standard .

History of origin

In Your Own Sweet Way was written in 1952 or 1953; it was the first composition that Brubeck wrote in years. In an interview for Len Lyon's book The Great Jazz Pianists , Brubeck discussed the reason for its creation: After a concert in upstate New York , saxophonist Paul Desmond had a conversation in the hoteland to him: "We really need original material," because we practically only played standards. We should find someone who will write something for us, ”said Desmond critically. Brubeck replied that he was joking that he was a composer himself. "I can write two originals in half an hour". Just to show this, he put two compositions on paper within 30 minutes, one of which was In Your Own Sweet Way . It is a 32-bar ballad in B flat major and written in the song form AABA. Brubeck recorded the song for the first time in 1956 for his solo album Brubeck Plays Brubeck .

reception

Brubeck presented In Your Own Sweet Way in July 1956 with his quartet at the Newport Jazz Festival ; the recording appeared on the album Dave Brubeck and Jay and Kai at Newport. It was not until 1961 that a live recording with his quartet with Desmond from March 1956 was released ( Live From Basin Street ); In 1961 he recorded the title with strings (published in 1963 on Brandenburg Gate: Revisited ).

As early as 1956, Miles Davis made two cover versions , in March 1956 with Sonny Rollins , in May 1956 with John Coltrane . The version on his album Workin 'with the Miles Davis Quintet contains several chord substitutions and an added eight-bar interlude (which is now often played by other artists as well). Brubeck was initially slightly angry at the trumpeter's slight change in the melody, which many musicians assumed was written that way. Versions by Stan Getz , Bill Evans (also solo), Wes Montgomery , McCoy Tyner and Chet Baker followed in the early 1960s . Carmen McRae provided the first sung version on her album Take Five in 1961 (with Brubeck on piano).

In 1974 Brubeck devoted himself to the melody together with Anthony Braxton and Lee Konitz . The pianists George Cables , Keith Jarrett , Taylor Eigsti , David Hazeltine , Robert Glasper and Kenny Werner and the guitarists Tal Farlow , Attila Zoller , Joe Pass , Emily Remler and John Etheridge recorded the song. There are more than 300 cover versions in jazz .

literature

  • Ted Gioia The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ted Gioia The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford 2012, p. 197
  2. ^ Len Lyons The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music. Hachette 1989, p. 109
  3. ↑ Philipp Roidinger: Melodic Improvisation: A generic unit of action, shape and effect. Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2018, p. 225
  4. ↑ a b Julian Schunter Abgehört: Intimate and wonderfully melodic - Chet Baker's solo on “In Your Own Sweet Way” . Jazz newspaper 5/2012
  5. ↑ Dave Brubeck's discography (jazzdisco.org)
  6. ↑ According to the entry at standardrepertoire.com the song also has 46 bars and the song form AABAC.
  7. ↑ In Your Own Sweet Way on Allmusic (English)