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New Game: “I’ll bet you’ve heard this tune somewhere else — you just don’t know you have.”


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13 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I guess I lose this game because I have never heard the song, never thought that I had, and know that I haven't.

You (Jim), of all people, have heard this song (somewhere else). I guarantee it, 100%.

I have 3 versions of this song on CD — and the autographs of two musicians who were part of the lineups of said recordings.

You probably own one or two copies yourself, Jim. At least one.

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No sampling tricks. Somebody we all love recorded this song, and had it in their book for at least a couple years (evidence the two live recordings I also have).

If you heard the version we all know, you’d instantly recognize it. But it’s totally the same song. Joyce’s version isn’t all that different, but it under-emphasizes aspects of the tune that might trigger recognition. (Or the version we all know punches them up, is a better way of saying it.)

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It’s also on Vol 1 of the Woody/Louis-Hayes “On Tour” 2016 Highnote.

https://www.discogs.com/release/19683304-Woody-Shaw-Louis-Hayes-The-Tour-Volume-One

Isn’t it interesting how utterly unrecognizable Joyce’s version is?? I doubt I would have figured it out myself.

The entire tune’s all there, but it sure is something else, I’ll say that.

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Or how about Judi Singh, for that matter.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.591966

https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2021/02/19/judi-singh-a-black-south-asian-musician-from-1950s-70s-edmonton/

http://citizenfreak.com/titles/300644-singh-judy-a-time-for-love

https://www.discogs.com/artist/4265027-Judy-Singh

Unless I’m mistaken, she’s the one and the same who wrote and sings on this…

 

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Konitz and Stern were actually an item for a while, per Konitz.

I met her once or twice in DC, and I am Facebook friends with her. I could message her asking how Woody came to record her piece. I will leave out the Lacy/Bonner bit.

I can also check copyrights later.

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2 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said:

Yes, that’s right. Very sadly, Judi passed away last year, she was very prominent as a jazz singer in Edmonton over that 70s-90s period. In more recent years she relocated/ retired to Victoria, BC I believe. That early CBC MOR LP with Tommy Banks is a real collector’s item, although it was reissued I believe on vinyl, a couple of years ago.

I saw her perform on a number of occasions, one of which I recall was a quartet featuring trombonist Julian Priester. By coincidence I was spinning that ‘For Sure’ album last night and have always enjoyed the Judi Singh tracks (Shaw played Edmonton in the late 70s so that arrangement must have resulted in an invite to participate in the album). In fact thinking about it, Michael Cuscuna’s notes in the Mosaic booklet confirm this.

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38 minutes ago, Rooster_Ties said:

Trust, but verify — gotcha. ;)

Well, I am not sure what I may find. Possibly nothing. Unless proven otherwise, the composer is Stern because she was listed on the LP. The odds that Lacy is confused because Bonner is on the record are fairly high.

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