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Tony Martin introduced “All the Things You Are” in Jerome Kern’s last Broadway musical, Very Warm for May, which opened November 17, 1939, and closed after only 59 performances. As a result of bad and spiteful
reviews, the Alvin Theater was kind of empty on the second night. But from this emerged what many regard as Kern’s finest composition.
No mater who you play with, study or listen to, this tune is a jazz standard. If you can't play this, you can't play jazz. It's that simple.
If Bach had written a melody like this, chances are it would have been a “cantus firmus” in the bass with counterpoint.
Johnny Griffin - All The Things You Are
Dave Brubeck - All The Things You Are - 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sREYEBeNg&feature=relatedJoe Pass - All the Things You Are
Charlie Parker - All the things you are
All The Things You Are - Frank Sinatra
Pat Metheny Group - All The Things You Are (live '80)
Jerry Bergonzi - All the things you are
Coleman Hawkins - All the Things You Are
All The Things You Are - Dexter Gordon Quintet
TILL NEXT WEEK, Keep a light in the window and a chilled cucumber vodka martini ready for me- Tim Price
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