Miles Davis/Jimmy Forrest

[bertrand]

Track 5 is not 'Perdido' as far as I can tell. What is it? It sounds like a bop standard I cannot name at the moment.

Thanks,

Bertrand.

[JSngry]

It's "Wahoo", isn't it?

[Gheorghe]

I must admit I didn´t buy yet the Miles Davis/Jimmy Forrest "Live at the Barrel". I should purchase it eventually.

Well, about "Wahoo", that´s like most bop tunes, they are lines written on chord changes of older tunes or standard tunes.

Some say, "Wahoo" is Benny Harris´ tune based on Perdido. Other´s say it´s Tadd´s riff on "Perdido". Anyway, Miles played it as "Wahoo" on the 1949 Paris Festival "Miles Davis-Tadd Dameron Quintet". Many bop musicians played it as "wahoo", like Bird with Fats and Bud at Birdland 1950, or Tadd Dameron with Allen Eager and Kai Winding at Royal Roost 1948.

Later, some mainstream musicians, who played "Perdido" , used the "wahoo" theme at the ending instead of repeating the original theme. I saw Oscar Peterson do that (I´m not Petersons´biggest fan, but when he ended Perdido with "Wahoo" I thought "wow, he starts to flirt with bop?"

[JSngry]

[bertrand]

Duh - of course. I even helped do some copyright research on this which was used for an article in the 'Current Research In Jazz' online journal.

Bertrand.

[medjuck]

Very nice! Thanks for this.