Billie's Bounce
"Billie's Bounce" | |
---|---|
Composition by Charlie Parker | |
Released | 1945 |
Recorded | November 1945 |
Genre | Jazz |
Label | Savoy |
Composer(s) | Charlie Parker |
"Billie's Bounce" (also known as "Bill's Bounce") is a jazz composition written in 1945 by Charlie Parker in the form of a 12 bar F blues. Some sources claim that the song was dedicated to Dizzy Gillespie's agent, Billy Shaw, although according to Ross Russell, Shaw's "name was misspelled"[1] accidentally. However, others claim that the song was in fact dedicated to Shaw's secretary, who was called Billie.[2] The original recording by Charlie Parker and His Re-Boppers was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002.[3]
Originally an instrumental, lyrics were added later by Jon Hendricks and by Eddie Jefferson.[4]
Personnel
The original 1945 recording was performed by the following lineup:[4]
- Charlie Parker – E♭ alto saxophone
- Miles Davis – B♭ trumpet
- Dizzy Gillespie – piano (Gillespie also plays trumpet in other recordings from the same session)
- Curley Russell – bass
- Max Roach – drums
Renditions
- Ben Webster and the Modern Jazz Quartet – 1953: An Exceptional Encounter (1953)
- Shelly Manne – The Three and the Two (1954)
- Metronome All-Stars – Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
- Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson – Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)
- Wes Montgomery – Fingerpickin (1957)
- Bud Powell – Bud Plays Bird (1958)
- Red Garland – Dig It! (recorded in 1957–58, released in 1962)
- Betty Roche – Singin' & Swingin' (1960)
- Clare Fischer – Surging Ahead (1963)
- Don Byas – Anthropology (1963)
- Dexter Gordon – Billie's Bounce (1964)
- Albert Ayler – My Name Is Albert Ayler (Debut, 1964)
- George Benson – Giblet Gravy (1968)
- Ella Fitzgerald – Montreux '77 (1977)
- Johnny Griffin – Birds and Ballads (1978)
- Robert Wyatt – Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 (1981/2009)
- Bobby Enriquez, with Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, and Poncho Sanchez –The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez (1981)
- Keith Jarrett – Still Live (1986); Tokyo '96 (1998)
- Milcho Leviev and Dave Holland – Up & Down (1987)
- Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Masque (1987)
- Oscar Peterson – Encore at the Blue Note (1990)
- Dizzy Gillespie – To Bird with Love (Telarc, 1992)
- David Murray – Saxmen (1993)
- Tina May – Tina May – Live in Paris (2000)[5]
- The Stimulators – Style (2006)
- Frank Morgan – A Night in the Life (2007)
See also
Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial Sessions
References
- ^ Russell, Ross (1996). Bird Lives! The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80679-7.
- ^ ""Billie's Bounce" | Stories of Standards". KUVO. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ Grammy Hall of Fame Archived July 7, 2015, at the Wayback Machine - retrieved on 28 April 2009
- ^ a b Billie's Bounce at jazzstandards.com - retrieved on 28 April 2009
- ^ "Tina May – Live In Paris". Discogs.
- v
- t
- e
- Bird and Diz (1952)
- South of the Border (1952)
- Big Band (1954)
- Charlie Parker Memorial, Vol. 1 (1956)
- The Immortal Charlie Parker (1956)
- Charlie Parker Memorial, Vol. 2 (1956)
- The Genius of Charlie Parker (1956)
- The Charlie Parker Story (1956)
- Now's the Time: the Quartet of Charlie Parker (1956)
- The Cole Porter Songbook (1956)
- Swedish Schnapps (1958)
- Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Bird on 52nd St. (1958)
- Bird at St. Nick's (1958)
- Bird Is Free (1961)
- One Night in Birdland (1977)
- Summit Meeting at Birdland (1977)
- Inglewood Jam (1978)
- The Washington Concerts (1983)
- Live at Rockland Palace (1997)
- Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial sessions
- Complete Charlie Parker on Dial
- Charlie Parker on Dial: The Complete Sessions
- Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve
- "Ah-Leu-Cha"
- "Anthropology"
- "Au Privave"
- "Big Foot" aka "Driftin' on a Reed"
- "Barbados"
- "Billie's Bounce"
- "Bird Gets the Worm"
- "Bloomdido"
- "Blues for Alice"
- "Chasin' the Bird"
- "Cheryl"
- "Confirmation"
- "Constellation "
- "Dexterity"
- "Donna Lee"
- "Ko-Ko"
- "Moose the Mooche"
- "Now's the Time"
- "Ornithology"
- "Parker's Mood"
- "Relaxin' at Camarillo"
- "Scrapple from the Apple"
- "Swingmatism"
- "Yardbird Suite"
- Bebop
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Charlie Parker with Strings
- Charlie Parker Omnibook
- Bird (1988 film)
- Bird and Diz
Category
![]() | This article about a jazz standard or composition written in the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e