Stablemates (jazz standard)
Stablemates is a jazz composition by tenor saxophonist and arranger Benny Golson from 1955, which has developed into the jazz standard .
Structure of the piece
The “intertwining of connection and break” is musically fascinating about the ballad . "The melody unfolds as if from a single source, but it lacks a distinctive core motif ." The song has a complex ABCAB song form , which is very irregularly structured: the A section comprises ten bars , the B section four and the C section eight bars.
First recording
It was recorded for the first time by Miles Davis in 1955 after his then saxophonist John Coltrane received the piece from his childhood friend Golson. Coltrane had just got the job at Davis. "After his first week of rehearsals in New York, about ninety miles away, John came back to Philadelphia for a few days ." According to Golson's recollections, he asked if he had "any pieces Miles might like." Golson gave him stablemates which was recorded for Prestige Records in the fall of 1955 . This first recording "set standards in speed and dynamics and at the same time established Golson's reputation as a composer."
Impact history
Stablemates was recorded for the next time in March 1956, by Paul Chambers , who like his fellow musicians Coltrane and Philly Joe Jones was also involved in the first recording. Mal Waldron also recognized the song's potential and recorded it in November 1956. Lee Morgan played it live in 1957 at the Lighthouse Cafe and shortly afterwards with Dizzy Gillespie's big band . Even Joe Puma employed already in the same year with the ballad that also of Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars, Art Farmer , Jackie McLean and Milt Jackson / Wes Montgomery was taken. Stablemates was also played by Anthony Braxton . Stan Getz initially had the ballad with Chet Baker in 1983 during an unfortunate European tour, and shortly before his death in 1991 it was recorded again in a duo with Kenny Barron .
Discography
- Miles Davis: Miles (Prestige, 1955)
- Benny Golson: Benny Golson Quartet (LRC, 1990)
literature
- Bielefeld catalog jazz 1988 & 2001
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. 3rd, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 .