Fred's Delight – Tadd Dameron
Fred's Delight has a charming melody with that classic Tadd Dameron debonair touch.
- Recording: Artie Shaw - Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
- Recorded on: January 6, 1950
- Label: Thesarus Transcriptions ()
- Concert Key: C
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Clarinet - Artie Shaw
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Although this composition was conceived and orchestrated as a big band arrangement for Artie Shaw, its 32-measure AABA song form melody with added eight-measure interlude section would work delightfully in any small group setting.
Our lead sheet also shows Tadd's original melodic introduction that weaves through different sections of the big band on the Artie Shaw recording.
Our lead sheet also shows Tadd's original melodic introduction that weaves through different sections of the big band on the Artie Shaw recording.
Don Sickler: "I have to thank Paul Combs for supplying me with a copy of Tadd's original score several years ago. I immediately recognized Tadd's manuscript, so I was very excited to see it." Tadd's complete arrangement (score and parts) is now available at ejazzlines.com."
Historian, educator and musician Paul Combs has been working for years on a Tadd Dameron biography: The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron, and Paul's thoroughly researched and fascinating book is now available.
As Combs' notes, "The Artie Shaw band, for which Tadd wrote in 1949, represented the clarinetist's try at a modern-jazz-style band. It had several well-known, young, progressive musicians on board: trumpeter Don Fagerquist; saxophonists Frank Socolow, Herbie Steward, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, and Danny Bank; guitarist Jimmy Raney; and drummer Irv Kluger."
A trivia fact: Dameron's scores for Shaw "were written on 'Stan Kenton Orchestra' score paper."
Historian, educator and musician Paul Combs has been working for years on a Tadd Dameron biography: The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron, and Paul's thoroughly researched and fascinating book is now available.
As Combs' notes, "The Artie Shaw band, for which Tadd wrote in 1949, represented the clarinetist's try at a modern-jazz-style band. It had several well-known, young, progressive musicians on board: trumpeter Don Fagerquist; saxophonists Frank Socolow, Herbie Steward, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, and Danny Bank; guitarist Jimmy Raney; and drummer Irv Kluger."
A trivia fact: Dameron's scores for Shaw "were written on 'Stan Kenton Orchestra' score paper."
Tadd Dameron
February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965
A giant of the bebop era, Dameron had a wonderful melodic and harmonic imagination which he brought to compositions and arrangements for both small and big bands. Writing first for Harlan Leonard, Jimmy Lunceford, Count Basie and Billy Eckstine, in the late '40s Dameron started composing and arranging for Dizzy Gillespie's big band. He also recorded his own superb sextet for Blue Note Records in 1947 which featured trumpet great Fats Navarro. Read more...