On Green Dolphin Street (song)
On Green Dolphin Street is a song by the composer Bronislaw Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was - interpreted by Mel Tormé - as the title track for the film Typhoon ( Engl Green Dolphin Street) determined that was released in theaters in 1947. End of the 1950s was the song to a jazz standard.
Structure of the song
The has consistently invested in C major song the song form ABAB ' with 32 bars. The eight-bar A section consists of a catchy, chromatically downward moving melody, which is often backed up with a Latin rhythm. The B and B 'section, which gives a harmonious moving response to the quasi- modal input melody of the A section, then negotiate with a walking bass and quarter-note swing of the drums to another rhythmic sense.
More versions
The song was sung in the 1950s by Sarah Vaughan. Even Mark Murphy ( 1961), Anita O'Day, Carmen McRaem Johnny Hartman (1972 ), Sheila Jordan, The Four Freshmen, Kevin Mahogany and Gabrielle Goodman recorded the song in their repertoire.
Trombonist Urbie Green On Green Dolphin Street has played in 1955. 1957, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne interpreted the song instrumental. Another early instrumental version is by Miles Davis, the first time in 1958 with Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb for his film music album Jazz grossed him track that - based on an early version of Ahmad Jamal - the song for extended improvisations used. Also in 1960 he put the song on his European tour before resistant. Eric Dolphy (1960 ) was based on his version of the shooting of Davis in 1958, but took over on bass clarinet briefly the function of the bass to break down the subject afterwards into its components. Albert Ayler Also in 1963 interpreted the song at a radio recording for the Danish Broadcasting with Niels -Henning Ørsted Brønsted and Niels Pedersen with the achievements of free jazz. Sonny Rollins took the melody in 1965 to a live recording from the Museum of Modern Art " as a springboard for high-altitude flights on the tenor sax ." Miles Davis also played mid-1960 ( The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965) the piece so that one had the feeling that " the standard is gradually " dissolve.
However, other instrumentalists like Bill Evans (1959 ) Milt Jackson / Oscar Peterson Archie Shepp (1977 ), Walter Norris (1990) and Joe Henderson ( 1994) have interpreted and recorded the song.
Use in the film
After use in Green Dolphin Street ( 1947) the song was played several times in movies using:
- The Prize (1963 )
- Zigzag (1970, with Anita O'Day )
- The Score (2001, with Cassandra Wilson)
Further meaning
On Green Dolphin Street ( Dt. The Dream Dancers ) is the title of a novel by Sebastian Faulks, whose protagonist hears a Miles Davis version of the song.