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Anyone gig with this song? What's your arrangement? The original recording is AABACACA. All the other Giruldini recordings seem like predetermined arrangements, not improvised. Would you just keep the CA cycle going?
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08-23-2023 12:15 PM
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I always thought the C's sounded improvised, at least to an extent. I suppose you could just hang on the C and give everybody a go, but it seems like the tight arrangement is kind of important to this tune.
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Maybe I’ll just let someone in the band take the C and keep the tune quick. Someone requested it last time we played and I like playing songs people like…
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
just kidding … obvs.
But it reminds of the story about how Miles named “Nardis” …
Someone asked Bill Evans to play Surry With the Fringe on Top or some such and he sneered and said “I don’t play that sh** — I’m an artist.”
But he had his nasally New Jersey accent and it sound like “ah mah nardis.”
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For the first part, I mean within reason. If someone comes to my jazz gig and requests an extremely popular straight ahead jazz tune (Linus and Lucy) then I'd like to know it. My 5 year old even requested I get out the guitar and play it for him yesterday, so I think it's going to go over well.
For Nardis, that's a really timely anecdote for me, I was just listening to Nardis yesterday wondering what the name was about.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Of course, to muddy the waters, there's the other story that Nardis is writer Ben Sidran's last name backwards...
At any rate, that's a weird request for summer...that song will forever be associated with Christmas in my mind, even though it appeared in other Peanuts gang specials too...
But Guaraldi could improvise for sure!
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Originally Posted by djg
Cant remember where I read it but there are other versions out there:
Reddit - Dive into anything
Its definitely apocryphal and maybe full out false, but I love it.
EDIT: Ah! There’s a comment down that Reddit thread where it cites Ted Gioia in “The Jazz Standards.” That’s definitely where I would’ve gotten it. I have that book on a shelf somewhere and used to read about the tunes I was learning when I was in college.
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Originally Posted by djg
Actually I just love how acceptable it was to name tunes after yourself in general. I feel like I’ll know I’ve made it when I can roll up to a session and hand the dudes a pile of fifteen charts, ten of which are blueses, all of which are named after me. Dexter Rides Again comes to mind.
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Originally Posted by djg
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Originally Posted by blille
that's a great record btw
not to get too sidetracked but in case you haven't seen this one....
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
HeadRush?
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