All the Things You Are - Baroque Arrangement?

[Teasing the Korean]

Someplace I have a jazz version of "All the Things You Are" in which the group had done a baroque arrangement, e.g., constructing a counterpoint melody to the baroque-esque chord progression, adding baroque ornamentation, etc.

I thought it might have been MJQ or Lennie Tristano, but I listened to those versions and they weren't the ones. It must have dated from the 1950s or 1960s - certainly not by a jazz artist coming of age in the digital era.

Maybe George Shearing or Nina Simone?

I know this tune has been done to death. Can anyone help me remember which version this is?

Thanks in advance.

[mikeweil]

I literally can hear Shearing in my head doing something like this - but I checked the Lord disco and my collection an couldn't find it.

[Teasing the Korean]

Thanks for trying. This kind of thing drives me crazy!

Could it be Dave Brubeck, on Fantasy or one of his Columbia "Jazz Goes to Rehab" concerts?

Edited July 18, 2014 by Teasing the Korean

[Larry Kart]

What's the instrumentation? That might help.

[Teasing the Korean]

What's the instrumentation? That might help.

I remember the lines more than the instrumentation. One instrument is playing the melody, and a second melodic instrument is doing an 8th-note counter-melody with descending lines and baroque ornamentation. Drums and bass are fairly minimal IIRC, until the solos kick in. In my mind, I can hear Milt Jackson and John Lewis, but I can also hear Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan.

Sorry to be so vague...

[sgcim]

Although not the recording you mean, the guitarist Jimmy Wyble did a Quintet recording of ATTYA in the style you mention.

The weird instrumentation was guitar, accordion, clarinet, bass and drums.

I think Desmond, Brubeck and that tenor player they used to play with (Dave K.?) did a Baroque version of it in the 50s.

It's a fifth fall chain that lends itself to Bach quotes.

[Niko]

What's the instrumentation? That might help.

I remember the lines more than the instrumentation. One instrument is playing the melody, and a second melodic instrument is doing an 8th-note counter-melody with descending lines and baroque ornamentation. Drums and bass are fairly minimal IIRC, until the solos kick in. In my mind, I can hear Milt Jackson and John Lewis, but I can also hear Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan.

Sorry to be so vague...

how about the Desmond/Mulligan version from Two of a Mind?

[Teasing the Korean]

No, not that one either. Thanks, though!

[king ubu]

Eugen Cicero?

sample here:

http://www.amazon.de/Handmade-Eugen-Cicero/dp/B000RG11QY

[Teasing the Korean]

The sample has the solo but not the head. I confess that I've never heard of this artist, so I don't think it is him.

[king ubu]

You can find it online, but a link is probably not permitted ...

[Fer Urbina]

We're positive it's not a contrafact, right?

The counterpoint line could be something similar to Kenny Dorham's 'Prince Albert'?

The only baroquesque version I know is, at least in the intro, Sal Salvador's. There's some counterpoint on Clifford Brown w/ Gigi Gryce.

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[Fer Urbina]

Another one with some counterpoint and the main line still close to ATTYA is Bill Smith's "Freeway" (with Herb Geller and Jimmy Gourley). I have it on a Impulse/GRP CD called Americans in Europe.

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