Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy is a jazz composition that Joe Zawinul originally wrote in 1966 for the singer Esther Marrow. Instead, however, it became known through the quintet of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley , on whose album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' it was first released.
General
The basic melody in the original version was played by Joe Zawinul himself on a Wurlitzer electric piano .
The composition became a surprise hit, reached number 11 on the Billboard charts and received a Grammy Award in the category Best Jazz Instrumental Performance in 1968 . Marlena Shaw wrote a text for the instrumental piece.
The composition was subsequently re-recorded by many artists, especially in 1967 by The Buckinghams , who reached number five on the Billboard charts with their vocal version, but in the same year also by Johnny Guitar Watson , Larry Williams and the American soul singer Madeline Bell . Other interpretations, for example by Ernestine Anderson , Eddie Jefferson , Jimmy McGriff and Buddy Rich , Chris Barber's Band, The Creation, followed and made the song the jazz standard . Next generation musicians like Monty Alexander , Kevin Eubanks , Maceo Parker and Nils Landgren also interpreted the Zawinul number. Most recently she recorded Dana Owens, known as Queen Latifah , in a "classically" arranged version.
Web links
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy ( YouTube video)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rald Dombrowski, Basis-Diskothek Jazz, Stuttgart, 2005, p. 13
- ↑ fenderrhodes.com http://www.fenderrhodes.com/history/zawinul.php .