[cosmosis]

Heard a couple kids playing it out side recently, but they could only play the A section which was funny. I was on the other side of a river so I couldn't ask what it was. They kept repeating the A section for like 10 minutes

It's maybe Basie or Ellington, along the lines of Satin Doll...

It's a call and response thing for the A section:

call: 6 8
response: 1 2 6 3 b7 1


anybody know what tunes this is?
Thanks

 

[saxmusicguy]

Stompin' at the Savoy

 

[cosmosis]

Yes Indeedy!! Thank you

 

[saxmusicguy]

Yes Indeedy!! Thank you

No problem. The scale degrees are actually

call: 3 5
response: 5 6 3 7 5 6

 

[patmiller]

I'm not surprised they avoided the bridge.

 

[cosmosis]

No problem. The scale degrees are actually

call: 3 5
response: 5 6 3 7 5 6

Thanks, I was just whistling it out at work.. that's my excuse

 

[saxmusicguy]

Thanks, I was just whistling it out at work.. that's my excuse

Your scale degrees provide the correct pitches too, if you change the last two to "1 2".

 

[RandyJ]

Start here;
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2009/01/21/new-miracle-pill-help-improve-memory/

 

[MartinMusicMan]

I'm not surprised they avoided the bridge.

I bet few people can play the bridge from memory.

 

[saxmusicguy]

I bet few people can play the bridge from memory.

I thought the bridge of this tune was just as well-known as the rest of it.

 

[hakukani]

I play in a band that has two versions, in different keys.

 

[saxmusicguy]

I play in a band that has two versions, in different keys.

How are the versions different, besides key?

 

[hakukani]

One is a stock big band arrangement, and is similar to the original Chick Webb/Benny Goodman recordings. The other was written especially for 'little' big band (3 saxes, 2 bones, three trumpets), and has a long 'open' section for solos. The stock arrangement is in the original C major. The 'special' arrangement is in Eb, IIRC.

 

[MartinMusicMan]

I thought the bridge of this tune was just as well-known as the rest of it.

I bet that if you played just the bridge, there are very few people who could identify the tune it came from.

Personally, I think the bridge is very undistinguished. It's just filler; it's a ... bridge.

 

[jazzbluescat]

I bet that if you played just the bridge, there are very few people who could identify the tune it came from.

Personally, I think the bridge is very undistinguished. It's just filler; it's a ... bridge.

Except the changes, where it breaks the pattern. Makes for interesting blowing.

 

[GT]

I don't have many talents so I'm going to toot my own sax here. My Dad gave me his Benny Goodman album that had the live Carnegie Hall concert on it and as a pre-teen I completely wore it out. That's one bridge I could come up with!

 

[cosmosis]

I actually like the bridge quite a bit.. everybody hears different I suppose. Thanks again!

 

[CooolJazzz]

I bet that if you played just the bridge, there are very few people who could identify the tune it came from.

Personally, I think the bridge is very undistinguished. It's just filler; it's a ... bridge.

It may be "undistinguished" in its simplicity, but it's extremely distinguishable. To me, it literally screams "This is the bridge to Stompin' at the Savoy". There would be no mistaking it. Then again, as a young boy I was listening primarily to this kind of music when most of my friends were listening to Pop and Rock & Roll, and that's probably why I see it as such an identifiable bridge.

 

[saxmusicguy]

It may be "undistinguished" in its simplicity, but it's extremely distinguishable. To me, it literally screams "This is the bridge to Stompin' at the Savoy". There would be no mistaking it.

I agree.

 

[patmiller]

My comment about the bridge pertained to the comparative difficulty of whistling it for kids who were having no trouble with the A. Those semi-tone shifts of the melody are characteristic but not easy to fake.