"Duet" is a 1957 (©1958)[1] big band swing composition and arrangement by Neal Hefti that was part of his larger body of work for the Count Basie Orchestra. His arrangement features two muted trumpets, which – when first recorded in 1957 on The Atomic Mr. Basie – featured Thad Jones and Joe Newman.[2][3]
Discography and videography
Discography
| Session / performance date |
Artist (leader) |
Album or Single |
Label (Catalog No.) |
Studio (Venue) |
Matrix No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 & 22 October 1957 | Count Basie and His Orchestra (audio) |
The Atomic Mr. Basie Joe Newman Thad Jones (soloists)[4] |
Roulette EPR 1520 | Capitol[i] New York ("Duet" Session No. 12472-14) |
R52003A (Side A) |
| 9 & 12 November 1957 | Count Basie and His Orchestra Featuring Joe Williams |
Autumn in Paris Joe Newman Thad Jones (soloists) |
Magic Records (E)AWE13 | Live The Olympia Paris |
|
| 24 June – 3 July 1958 | Count Basie and His Atomic Band Featuring Joe Williams |
Count on the Coast Featuring Joe Williams (Vol. 2) |
Phontastic (Swd)7555 (Stockholm) Jazz Hour (Eu)JHR73543 |
Live The Crescendo[ii] West Hollywood |
PHONT 7555 B (Side B) |
| 14 January 1961 | Karel Krautgartner Jazzový Orchester |
Taneční Orchestr Československý Rozhlasu (Czech Radio Dance Orchestra) |
Supraphon DV 10119 | Prague | VM 2291 (Side A) |
| 1964 | Neal Hefti and His Orchestra (audio at 6:45) |
The Leisurely Loveliness of Neal Hefti and His Orchestra | Movietone MTM1006 | MTS 2006 A (Side A) | |
| 1965 | Jean Leccia (fr) French lyrics by Jeannine "Mimi" Perrin and Pierre Saka (fr)[5] |
"Duet" (45 rpm) | Disc AZ (fr) EP 977 Disques Vogue (distributor) |
AZ 977 | |
| 10 December 1966 | Wild Bill Davison (audio) |
Memories | Jazzology JCD-201 | Live Deansgate Manchester, England |
|
| 13 December 1966 | Wild Bill Davison | Wild Bill Davison! | Fontana (E)TL5413 | London | |
| 27 October 1967 | Wild Bill Davison | I'll Be a Friend With Pleasure | Fat Cat's Jazz FCJ106 | Live Manassas Jazz Festival Manassas, Virginia |
|
| 18 November 1967 | Wild Bill Davison With Alex Welsh and His Band (audio) |
Fidgety Feet | Jazzology JCD-231 | Live Manchester Sports Guild Manchester, England |
|
| 11 December 1978 | Fessor's (Ole "Fessor" Lindgreen (sv)) Big City Jazz Band Featuring Bill Davison (audio) |
Wild Bill Davison with Fessor's Big City Jazz Band | Storyville (Dan) SLP 421 (1997 re-release: STCD 5525) |
Copenhagen | |
| May 1984 | Joe Newman and Joe Wilder |
Hangin' Out "Duet" arranged by Frank Foster |
Concord Jazz CJ-262 | JAC Studios New York |
|
| 3 November 1994 7 & 21 March 1995 |
The Frank Capp Juggernaut (audio) |
In a Hefti Bag[6] Conte Candoli Snooky Young (soloists) |
Concord Jazz CCD-4655 (CD) | Sage & Sound Hollywood |
CCD 4655 01 |
Videography
| Session / performance date |
Artist (leader) |
Featuring | Label (Catalog No.) |
Studio (Venue) |
Archival source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 October 2009 | Jazz Company Big Band Directed by Gabriele Comeglio (it) (video) |
"Duet" (video) Emilio Soana Pippo Colucci (soloists) |
Live Teatro Martinetti (it) Garlasco, Italy |
YouTube |
Sheet and folio music, arrangements and transcriptions
- Music of Neal Hefti: Fake Book (3 Vols., E♭, B♭, C), Warner Bros. Music (1991); OCLC 896685811
- For E♭ instruments: OCLC 472179616, 1100295729
- For B♭ instruments: OCLC 25757824
- For concert pitch instruments: OCLC 25757786
- The Real Book of Blues, Jack Long (ed.), London: Wise Publications (an imprint of Music Sales Group) (1999); OCLC 862606850, 716149208, 401513490, 474857732
- See: Real Book
- Note: By inclusion of the "Duet" lead sheet in jazz oriented fake books, one might infer that it is a jazz standard, or one might infer that the editor or publisher is offering it as such.
- Solo instruments
- Big band
- For big band, transcription of Hefti's arrangement by Jon Harpin (©1986); includes transcribed solos of Joe Newman and Thad Jones from the Basie's 1957 Atomic album.
- Encino Music, USA, Warner / Chappel Music Ltd., London, reproduced by permission of International Music Publications Ltd.
- 2 E♭ altos, 2 B♭ tenors, 1 E♭ bari; 4 B♭ trumpets; 2 B♭ tenor trombones, 1 B♭ bass trombone, 1 optional B♭ tenor trombone; guitar, piano, bass, drums with brushes
- Moderate blues in E♭ 4
4
= 96 Swing 
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ Basie's session for the Atomic album was at Capitol Studios Studio A (Capitol Records, Inc.), located in the Theater District, Midtown Manhattan, on the first floor (one floor up) in the 14-story Eaves Building at 151 West 46th Street. That studio, as a Capitol studio, flourished from 1949 to 1961. The Eaves Costume Company – still in existence, founded by Albert Grammer Eaves (1847–1900) in 1863 (160 years ago) – occupied the ground floor. The Eaves Costume Company built the building and opened it May 1, 1928. (The Sound Studies Reader, Jonathan Sterne, ed., Routledge, 2012, pps. 310–311; OCLC 916524063)
- ^ On June 30, July 1 and 2, 1958, the Basie Band – before closing at the Crescendo – was used to back Nat King Cole for his album, Welcome to the Club, on Capitol. For contractual reasons, Basie did not perform with his band on the album (Sheridan 1986, p. 498).
References
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Musical Compositions, Third Series, Library of Congress, Copyright OfficeVol. 12, Part 5, No. 1, January–June 1958 (1959), pg. 125"Duet," Neal Hefti (composer), Neal Hefti Music Inc. (copyright owner), © 9 January 1958; EU506876 (EU = Class E, unpublished)
- ^ Count Basie: A Bio-Discography, compiled by Chris Sheridan, Greenwood Press (1986), pps. 150, 468, 498; OCLC 1046256627
- ^ The Jazz Composer: Moving Music Off the Paper, by Graham Collier, Northway Publications (2009), p. 65; OCLC 895006352
- ^ 30-Second Jazz: The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles and Performers, Each Explained In a Half Minute, Dave Gelly (ed.), Ivy Press (2016, 2017, 2019), p. 98; OCLC 1060581201
- ^ "France" (International Section), Cash Box, Vol. 26, No. 45, May 29, 1965, p. 46
- ^ The Jazz Discography Online, Tom Lord (ed.) (retrieved June 19, 2019); OCLC 182585494, 690104143
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