Snibor
Snibor is a jazz composition by Billy Strayhorn that was first presented to the public in 1947.
Strayhorn wrote the composition around 1947 under the title Robbins Nest , which alluded to the disc jockey and radio presenter Fred Robbins (1919-1992); when at the same time Illinois Jacquet and Charles Thompson published a composition of the same name that Claude Thornhill recorded, he renamed it Snibor , Robin’s spoken backwards. The Strayhorn title Matinee , which had not yet been recorded at the time, is considered a model for Snibor . Both titles had a tutti instrumentation, in the first chorus were in D flat major written and contained a series of offbeat - Prasen . Snibor is also related to Strayhorn's later composition A Midnight in Paris .
The title was premiered by the Duke Ellington Orchestra at their concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on December 17, 1947, there under the title The New Look . In the studio - now under his final title Snibor - Duke Ellington recorded the composition with his orchestra on September 1, 1949. Another recording by Ellington was on his Strayhorn tribute album in 1967 ... And His Mother Called Him Bill .
From the mid-1950s, interpretations of the title followed in smaller groups, initially by Johnny Hodges , Toshio Mori , and later by the Harry Allen / Keith Ingham Quintet ( The Intimacy of the Blues: A Celebration of Billy Strayhorn's Music ) by Tom Talbert , Joe Temperley , Don Byron ( Bug Music , 1996), Chris Flory , Michael Hashim , Hod O'Brien , Humphrey Lyttelton , Ken Peplowski , Alan Barnes and most recently Wayne Escoffery ( Live at Smalls , 2014).