Salt peanuts
Salt Peanuts is the name and title of a piece of music composed in 1942 by jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and drummer and vibraphonist Kenny Clarke . It is one of the shortlist of popular compositions of this genre, known as jazz standards , and is represented in an important collection of such pieces of music, the Real Book .
The composition and its story
Salt Peanuts is a riff-like and swing- oriented up-tempo piece with 32 bars in the form AABA, for the performance of which a very fast tempo is intended ( prestissimo ) . The rhythm of the word syllables salt pea-nuts , recited with an octave jump in Gillespie's original recordings, has an equivalent in a melodic figure of the theme (bars 3 and 4). The unique thing about this bebop title is the fact that its text consists only of the words "Salt peanuts, salt peanuts" . Many other bebop pieces are instrumental works; any singing in it is usually performed in the onomatopoeic Scat style.
Before Gillespie recorded Salt Peanuts himself , Count Basie played its six-note basic motif in an instrumental phrase on the piano for his recording of Basie Boogie (Columbia / OKeh) on July 2, 1941. In the same year he played the title again live at a gig in the Café Society jazz club .
Salt Peanuts has now become one of the classic bebop jazz standards. One of the first Salt Peanuts recordings under this title, recorded on May 11, 1945 with Gillespie, Charlie Parker , Al Haig , Curly Russell and Sid Catlett , was released on Dizzy Gillespie 's 1946 album Shaw 'Nuff . Probably the most famous recording of the title comes from the legendary album Live at Massey Hall, Toronto, 1953 , when Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker played the classic titles of the bop times together again, accompanied by Max Roach , Bud Powell and Charles Mingus .
In the 1950s, Miles Davis and John Coltrane recorded the title for the Prestige label at their marathon session ( Steamin 'with the Miles Davis Quintet , 1957). Also, Coleman Hawkins , Bud Powell, Philly Joe Jones and Donald Byrd took on interpretations of the piece for publication under their own name.
Literature / source
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 4th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Real Book , Volume II, Second Edition, p. 340. Hal Leonard Corporation, Milwaukee; without date. ISBN 0-634-06021-X
- ^ Dizzy Gillespie and his Sextets & Orchestra: Shaw 'Nuff . Musicraft Records, MVSCD-53, 1987