Jumpin 'at the Woodside

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jumpin 'at the Woodside is a jazz - Composition of Count Basie and his band musicians around from 1938. He became a popular jazz standard of Swing . In 1957 Jon Hendricks wrote a text for his "Vocalese" trio with Dave Lambert and Annie Ross .

The title

Audio file / audio sample Elements ? / i from Jumpin 'at the Woodside on the tonic

Jumpin 'at the Woodside is a riff-like swing number for big bands with 32 bars, in the form AABA. The piece is named after the Hotel Woodside, the former “dump” for musicians in New York . Count Basie took it with his band at the time, who u. a. Buck Clayton , Harry Sweets Edison , Dicky Wells , Benny Morton , Herschel Evans, and Lester Young were among them, for the first time on August 22, 1938 and several times thereafter. In December the piece reached number 11 on the Billboard charts and stayed in the charts for four weeks. It was created under several head arrangements during the many rehearsals at Hotel Woodside, for which there was plenty of time three times a week, and was first played by heart by the musicians as a head arrangement . So it wasn't written out. It was the typical way the band worked around 1936–37. Each brass section had a musician who provided the ideas that the other musicians came up with and which were deliberately changed during rehearsals. Basie himself notices how amazingly well the musicians were able to memorize all these arrangements and how precisely, after rehearsals, they were reproduced almost exactly in the concerts. It was arranged again later by Neal Hefti , who in any case relied heavily on the sound of the 1938 arrangement and did not change much. Basie always kept the piece in the repertoire.

The A part, often in B flat major, lives from the tension that the completely constant four-note eighth note motif builds up in quarters with the walking bass . The rhythmically concise chords interspersed only noticeably change when the transition to the dominant in the harmonic II-VI scheme. The first four bars of the bridge (B part) control the subdominant , the second four again the dominant. The missing theme of the bridge, it is ad libitum , is in the fixed arrangement z. B. harmonized with gradually rising movement and enriched melodically with falling trumpets.

The composition belonged to the classical swing repertoire and was recorded by many jazz musicians such as Bob Brookmeyer , Stan Getz , Benny Goodman , Lionel Hampton , Gene Krupa and many other musicians. With the later text by Jon Hendricks, it was also interpreted by the Dave Lambert Singers .

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ At that time there was no question that the pieces developed in the band were in the name of the musicians' “breadwinner” leader. Basie's and Durham's early compositions bear Moten's name. Associations such as B. the union section of the African-American Musicians Union, the Kansas City's Local 627, began to look after the rights of musicians. But copyrights were not taken into account until the 1940s / 50s.
  2. ↑ That means: topic, repetition of the topic, transition, again the topic
  3. ^ Count Basie, Albert Murray Good Morning Blues , Primus 1985
  4. ↑ (f'-g'-b'-g ')
  5. ↑ (bd-es-ef-es-dc) for I6 (cd-es-ef-es-dc) for IIm7-V7
  6. ↑ (V7)
  7. ↑ I6 /// - IIm7-V7-I6 exactly