Details
Summary
- Ensembles:
- Brass Ensemble
- Genres:
- Blues Standards Swing Contemporary
- Composers:
- Duke Ellington
- Publishers:
- Keith Terrett
- Format:
- Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Artist:
- Duke Ellington
- Arrangers:
- Keith Terrett
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 14
Detailed Description
SKU: A0.747084
Composed by Duke Ellington. Arranged by Keith Terrett. This edition: pdf. Contemporary. 14 pages. Keith Terrett #6384005. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.747084).Arranged for Brass Quintet, "C Jam Blues" is a jazz standard composed in 1942 by Duke Ellington and performed by countless other musicians, such as Dave Grusin, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson, and Charles Mingus.
- Ellington's black and white film was produced in 1942. The video depicts a jam session where Ellington begins playing with a double bass before gradually being joined by other members of his band, among them drummer Sonny Greer and trumpeter Rex Stewart. The film title is Jam Session.
- Western Swing band leader Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys recorded the song sometime between 1945 and 1947 as part of the Tiffany Transcriptions.
- Bill Doggett recorded a version on his 1958 tribute album Salute to Duke Ellington (King).
- "C Jam Blues" was used by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band as the basis of their song "The Intro and the Outro".
- Mulgrew Miller and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen included the song in their 1999 album The Duets.
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet performed this live at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival; the recording appears in their album Newport 1958.
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- Artists:
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- Ensemble:
- Brass Ensemble
- Publisher:
- Keith Terrett