There Is No Greater Love

There Is No Greater Love (also No Greater Love ) is a song in 1936, Isham Jones composed to a text by Marty Symes. The song, which since the 1950s even frequently Up is presented as a ballad tempo, even in medium tempo, and more recently, " belonged to the most lyrical, what the swing era brought forth " and developed into the jazz standard.

Features of the song

The song is a romantic love song that is repeatedly emphasized in the that there is no greater love than they feel the singer compared to his love partner. The rhyme schemes are designed very clear in their choice of words. The melody spans an eleventh and is easy to sing. The song is in the form of a song AA'BA ' and includes 32 bars. The A- parts are in B flat major, the B section in G minor. A basic motif of three descending seconds and a falling Quart occurs twice in each A-section and once in the B section. The song is considered the " classic ballad that has not too much devoted to the blues. "

First recording

Jones took his orchestra There Is No Greater Love as a B- side to his recording of the film Melody Life Begins When You're in Love with Woody Herman as a singer on. The piece became a hit in April 1936; it came to number 20 of the U.S. pop charts.

Other cover versions

Other recordings in the same year followed by Don Darcy and Duke Ellington, in which alone indicates the alto sax solo by Johnny Hodges on the Jazz suitability. The song was primarily by singers like Billie Holiday ( 1947), Dinah Washington ( 1954 Dinah Jams ), Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Ernestine Anderson interpreted ( with the Metropole Orkest ) or Dee Dee Bridgewater, only in exceptional cases by male colleagues such as The Four Freshmen (1958 ) and especially Jimmy Scott ( Falling in Love Is Wonderful, 1962).

Miles Davis has recorded the song in both 1955 and 1964. Have its potential Sonny Rollins (1957 ), Lou Donaldson (1957 ), Dizzy Gillespie (1959 ), Stanley Turrentine (1960), Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt (1961 ), McCoy Tyner (1962), Joe Pass (1964) and Stan recognized Getz with Kenny Barron (1991). The avant-garde quartet Circle by Anthony Braxton and Chick Corea played the song in 1971 in his Paris Concert; Mike Stern celebrated him as a " merger study". The version of Stefon Harris ( Black Action Figure, 1999) was in 2000 nominated as "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo" for a Grammy. The ballad has lived on in the Soul ( Aretha Franklin, Pee Wee Ellis) and in popular music (Amy Winehouse, Frank 2003).