Star-Crossed Lovers
Star-Crossed Lovers (German about lovers, born under unlucky ) is a jazz -Instrumental of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn , which was published in this form in 1957 and developed into the Jazz Standard.
background
Strayhorn wrote Star-Crossed Lovers for an Ellington concert at the Shakespearean Festival in Ontario. At Ellington's suggestion, he resorted to his own title Pretty Girl , which he adapted , for the composition, which was supposed to allude to Romeo and Juliet . The instrumental is written in the song form AABA. Strayhorn was very surprised to find that the adapted composition had been published under both names.
In the original recording of December 6, 1956 on the album Such Sweet Thunder , Johnny Hodges has the part of Juliet on the alto saxophone , Paul Gonsalves the part of Romeo on the tenor saxophone .
effect
The discographer Tom Lord lists 138 cover versions of the composition, including a. by Randy Weston , Fraser MacPherson , Pepper Adams , Art Farmer , Tommy Flanagan , Dave Liebman , Kenny Barron , Dollar Brand , Kenny Drew senior , John Hicks , Dave Frishberg , Fred Hersch , James Newton , Mal Waldron / Steve Lacy , Bill Kirchner , Kenny Burrell , Ed Schuller and Paolo Fresu . Even Daniel Barenboim interpreted the composition on his Ellington tribute album.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Star-Crossed Lovers (jazzstandards.com)
- ↑ SM Buhler Form and Character in Duke Ellington's and Billy Strayhorn's Such Sweet Thunder
- ^ David Schiff The Ellington Century University of California Press 2012, p. 185
- ↑ Haruki Murakami : Dangerous Beloved (novel) DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8321-4781-0
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online)