Groovin' High

Groovin 'High is an early bebop title that was written and published in 1944 by jazz musician and composer Dizzy Gillespie and one of his most famous songs was. The theme is in song form A - held C - B - A. It is based as a bebop head on the chord structure of Whispering, one of John Schonberger 1920 composed standards, and has a continuous major character. In measures 1/2, 5/6 and 9/ 10 of the A- parts it consists only of a reminder of the cuckoo Terzmotiv, in the other bars but from the bebop eighth -specific phrases.

In the biography of Dizzy the song is described as " appealing song with medium tempo ", which demonstrates Gillespie's skill in the design of structures of interest with only six instruments. The title of the song was also used as the title of various albums or books about the biography Groovin 'High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie.

Effect story

Groovin 'High Gillespie has taken up initially on February 9, 1945 with Dexter Gordon on tenor saxophone, Frank Paparelli on piano, Chuck Wayne, Guitar, Murray Shipinski, bass and Shelly Manne on drums. This first recording contains " a bold 6 -bar introduction and surprisingly worn Coda "; Gordon play at Gillespie tune a " contrapuntal counter- voice". In the same month came two more shots, at which the composer was involved.

Historically famous jazz is particularly the inclusion of 28 February 1945, when played at their next Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and it was the first studio recording, on which the two played together. This time, Groovin 'High was recited in unison the two blowers. This version was later released on the album Shaw Nuff. The song is one of seven songs on the album, the jazz critic Scott Yanow, according to the, Gillespie's contemporaries shocked. In the book, Jazz: A Regional Exploration, said Yanow that such songs were unprecedented at the time, a radically different musical language were compared to contemporary swing music.

Although the fans and fellow musicians found the material at first very strange and difficult, Groovin 'High were accepted as a jazz standard, according to the The Sax & Brass Book. According to Yanow seemed Parker and Gillespie's solos to have little relationship to the melody, but they were connected. It was a big step forward for the Jazz.

Both Gillespie and Parker played it yet later - Parker 1953, an organist, Gillespie in the late 1950s with the vocal group Les_Double_Six. As an important cover versions of the standard are called the Cannonball Adderley / Milt Jackson, Lou Donaldson, Erroll Garner, Hampton Hawes, Bobby Timmons, George Wallington and Gerald Wilson.