Ray Brown mystery tune

[tooter]

After spectacular success with the Stan Getz tune on another thread, here is a second one which has been bothering me.

Ray Brown's trio, made up of Benny Green and Gregory Hutchinson, were in Edinburgh, Scotland, probably in 1997. They played a marvellous concert which I recorded from the radio. One of the tunes was not named however and I have been puzzled ever since as to what it is. It sounds like a traditional tune and lots of people say they know it. But so far nobody has been able to name it.

There is a sample of just one chorus of the tune on my website - the address is http://rodneypledge.tripod.com/ - please paste this into your browser to go there and click on the link.

Let me know if there is any problem hearing the sample. Thanks for trying anyway.

[king ubu]

King ubu regret's he's unable to help with this, si-ir!

[mikeweil]

Somehow the page won't load far down enough to display the tune link ... can you post a direct link to the sound file?

[king ubu]

http://rodneypledge.tripod.com/sitebuilder...es/raybrown.mp3

seems that maybe you still have to copy the link into a new browser window.

[tooter]

King ubu regret's he's unable to help with this, si-ir!

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Please thank His Majesty for trying, although it is a bit of a let-down!

[tooter]

Somehow the page won't load far down enough to display the tune link ... can you post a direct link to the sound file?

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Did it work, Mike? Surely you know it. You're just keeping me in suspense.

BTW, anyone who would like to have the whole concert as broadcast plus another from Glasgow from a year earlier can download them from "dimeadozen" - it's still there and should be available for a while yet - few days maybe.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Could it be Fran Dance/Put Your Little Foot Right Out ? I only know that tune from Miles Davis versions.

Mike

[JSngry]

Could it be Fran Dance/Put Your Little Foot Right Out ? I only know that tune from Miles Davis versions.

Mike

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Si! Contrast and compare with the Ray Brown Trio AMG soundsample found HERE.

Funny, that tune sure sounds like a Mills Brothers number. Did they ever do it?

[king ubu]

Oh, "Fran Dance" it is! I told you, Rodney, it sounded so familiar! Almost like a folk song, in it's simplicity!

[tooter]

Could it be Fran Dance/Put Your Little Foot Right Out ? I only know that tune from Miles Davis versions.

Mike

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It is! Another success! Thanks a lot Mike. I compared not only the main theme but also the bridge to make sure. Although the notation as played is somewhat different on the two versions ("Jazz Track" is the Miles track I was using), there can be no mistaking the bridge as being the same.

AMG lists just twenty four versions and all of those by Miles.

[tooter]

So we've got Fran-Dance composed by Miles and Put Your Little Foot Right Out composed by Larry Spier - same tune.

[bertrand]

On another subject: can we name one composition we know for sure was written by Miles? I knew about 'Fran Dance' years ago, but there are some others that have surfaced in the last few years that turn out to not have been written by him.

'Donna Lee' is a good one to start with. Gil Evans said that Bird claimed that Miles wrote it. Do we have any other proof? (I trust Gil, this being said). How about all the tunes on Filles de Kilimanjaro (except for 'Tout de Suite', which is always credited to Miles and Gil)?

Bertrand.

Edited June 6, 2005 by bertrand

[brownie]

Now don't tell me Deception was not written by Miles Davis