There I Found You – Freddie Redd
Classic Freddie Redd—a beautiful, melodic swinger at a medium tempo. Our exclusive "Freddie Redd Project" recording is available in Minus You format for all instruments.
- Recording: Don Sickler - Freddie Redd Project
- Recorded on: January 25, 2015
- Label: jazzleadsheets.com (JLS 1021)
- Concert Key: E-flat
- Vocal Range: , to
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Tenor Sax - Elijah Shiffer
- Piano - Julius Rodriguez
- Bass - Nick Dunston
- Drums - Jeff Brillinger
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- Description
- Historical Notes
- Solos
- Piano Corner
- Bass Corner
- Drum Corner
- Guitar Corner
- Inside & Beyond
- Minus You
This song has it all—a beautiful melody with some catchy rhythmic hits and a well-formed chord progression with some tasty modulations. The form is basically AABA with a four-measure tag, which is further tagged for the coda.
Feature one melody instrument with your group, or play the quintet arrangement with your quintet. If you don't have a group, join the original recording session: check out our Minus You tracks.
In this quintet arrangement, the trumpet plays the melody with the rhythm section for the first A section. The tenor sax continues the melody for the first four measures of the second A, with the trumpet returning for the melody on the rest of this section with tenor harmonizing. This is the format of most of the rest of the head (the tenor has a few counter melodies on the long notes of the melody); the sixth and seventh measures of the head have the tenor on the melody without trumpet.
Minus You tracks are available for all instruments; these lead sheets can be used as is, with your own group, or with our minus you audio tracks. Click on the Minus You tab for details.
Feature one melody instrument with your group, or play the quintet arrangement with your quintet. If you don't have a group, join the original recording session: check out our Minus You tracks.
In this quintet arrangement, the trumpet plays the melody with the rhythm section for the first A section. The tenor sax continues the melody for the first four measures of the second A, with the trumpet returning for the melody on the rest of this section with tenor harmonizing. This is the format of most of the rest of the head (the tenor has a few counter melodies on the long notes of the melody); the sixth and seventh measures of the head have the tenor on the melody without trumpet.
Minus You tracks are available for all instruments; these lead sheets can be used as is, with your own group, or with our minus you audio tracks. Click on the Minus You tab for details.
"The Freddie Redd Project" was recorded at the legendary Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs.
No previous recording of this song have been released. This is unfortunate as it has all the characteristics of a standard. Listing to our clip, you can hear it's very lyrical, and you can hear that the title actually starts the lyric process. Many years ago, when the great jazz historian and author Ira Gitler (who receives a prestigious NEA Jazz Masters Award in 2017) heard the melody, he was moved to set a lyric for the whole song.
Don Sickler: Several years ago, while Ira was digging though his files looking for a copy of his lyric to give me, he found a cassette of himself demo-ing his lyric with a Freddie Redd acetate quartet recording playing quietly in the background. We think it's a nice lyric, and now that an instrumental version of this great song is available, we're going to try to get someone to record the lyric. Ira's lyric naturally starts with "There I found you," which is Freddie's instrumental title, obviously from the start of his melody. To protect Freddie's instrumental composition, I told Ira he had to come up with a new title for his lyric version, so he calls his lyric version Now You're Here, Dear.
I've just started working on a plan to get a singer to create a video presentation of the song VERY SOON. As soon as I can get this done, we'll make the video and lyric edition available on jazzleadsheets.com.
No previous recording of this song have been released. This is unfortunate as it has all the characteristics of a standard. Listing to our clip, you can hear it's very lyrical, and you can hear that the title actually starts the lyric process. Many years ago, when the great jazz historian and author Ira Gitler (who receives a prestigious NEA Jazz Masters Award in 2017) heard the melody, he was moved to set a lyric for the whole song.
Don Sickler: Several years ago, while Ira was digging though his files looking for a copy of his lyric to give me, he found a cassette of himself demo-ing his lyric with a Freddie Redd acetate quartet recording playing quietly in the background. We think it's a nice lyric, and now that an instrumental version of this great song is available, we're going to try to get someone to record the lyric. Ira's lyric naturally starts with "There I found you," which is Freddie's instrumental title, obviously from the start of his melody. To protect Freddie's instrumental composition, I told Ira he had to come up with a new title for his lyric version, so he calls his lyric version Now You're Here, Dear.
I've just started working on a plan to get a singer to create a video presentation of the song VERY SOON. As soon as I can get this done, we'll make the video and lyric edition available on jazzleadsheets.com.
Don Sickler's Solo Piano Arrangement, in his not-too-hard but fun to play style.
As with several other songs on the Freddie Redd Project recording, two takes were used. The quintet take is available in Minus You format for piano, bass, and drums; the minus melody (quintet) and minus piano (trio: bass & drums only) tracks come from a different, quartet take.
[clip] Form of the quintet version
-- melody
-- 2 choruses trumpet solo
-- 1 chorus tenor sax solo
-- 1 chorus bass and drums trading 4s
-- out melody and coda
[clip] minus piano (quintet) - the Piano (quintet) part shows the melody and rhythm section figures
-- count off sets up the melody
-- comp for the melody
-- comp for the trumpet solo (2 choruses) and tenor sax solo (1 chorus)
-- comp for bass trading 4s with drums (1 chorus)
-- comp for the out melody and coda
As a piano feature (melody and solo), check out our trio track (details below).
[clip] minus bass (quintet) - there is a separate Bass part
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play figures/walk for the melody
-- walk for the trumpet solo (2 choruses) and tenor sax solo (1 chorus)
-- trade 4s with drums (1 chorus)
-- play figures/walk for the out melody and coda
[clip] minus drums (quintet) - Drummers should get the Condensed Score
-- count off sets up the melody
-- melody (sticks throughout) 2-feel and 4-feel as indicated
-- comp for the trumpet solo (2 choruses) and tenor sax solo (1 chorus)
-- trade 4s with bass (bass first) (1 chorus) - snaps have been added during the drum sections
-- comp for the out melody and coda
Note from Don Sickler: After we finished the quintet take, I armed tenor saxophonist Elijah Shiffer with the melody part and put him in what is the percussion booth at Rudy Van Gelder's marvelous studio. It's quite a distance from the other booths, so there's great isolation.
Form of the quartet version
-- melody
-- 3 choruses solo
-- out melody and coda
[clip] minus melody (quartet) - this track comes from the quartet version, Minus You for any melody instrument
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play the melody
-- solo 3 choruses
-- play the out melody and coda
I recently realized that I was still missing something. Freddie loves playing his melodies himself, in a trio context. By eliminating the comping piano track from the minus melody track, we made a perfect track where the pianist can play the melody and be featured throughout. This bass & drums only track also works great as a feature for guitar or any other instrument (tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins loved to play with just bass and drums, for example). Perfect for an audition tape.
[clip] bass and drums only - to feature piano, guitar, vibes, or any melodic instrument that likes to play without harmonic accompaniment
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play the melody
-- solo 3 choruses
-- play the out melody and coda
[clip] Form of the quintet version
-- melody
-- 2 choruses trumpet solo
-- 1 chorus tenor sax solo
-- 1 chorus bass and drums trading 4s
-- out melody and coda
[clip] minus piano (quintet) - the Piano (quintet) part shows the melody and rhythm section figures
-- count off sets up the melody
-- comp for the melody
-- comp for the trumpet solo (2 choruses) and tenor sax solo (1 chorus)
-- comp for bass trading 4s with drums (1 chorus)
-- comp for the out melody and coda
As a piano feature (melody and solo), check out our trio track (details below).
[clip] minus bass (quintet) - there is a separate Bass part
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play figures/walk for the melody
-- walk for the trumpet solo (2 choruses) and tenor sax solo (1 chorus)
-- trade 4s with drums (1 chorus)
-- play figures/walk for the out melody and coda
[clip] minus drums (quintet) - Drummers should get the Condensed Score
-- count off sets up the melody
-- melody (sticks throughout) 2-feel and 4-feel as indicated
-- comp for the trumpet solo (2 choruses) and tenor sax solo (1 chorus)
-- trade 4s with bass (bass first) (1 chorus) - snaps have been added during the drum sections
-- comp for the out melody and coda
Note from Don Sickler: After we finished the quintet take, I armed tenor saxophonist Elijah Shiffer with the melody part and put him in what is the percussion booth at Rudy Van Gelder's marvelous studio. It's quite a distance from the other booths, so there's great isolation.
Form of the quartet version
-- melody
-- 3 choruses solo
-- out melody and coda
[clip] minus melody (quartet) - this track comes from the quartet version, Minus You for any melody instrument
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play the melody
-- solo 3 choruses
-- play the out melody and coda
I recently realized that I was still missing something. Freddie loves playing his melodies himself, in a trio context. By eliminating the comping piano track from the minus melody track, we made a perfect track where the pianist can play the melody and be featured throughout. This bass & drums only track also works great as a feature for guitar or any other instrument (tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins loved to play with just bass and drums, for example). Perfect for an audition tape.
[clip] bass and drums only - to feature piano, guitar, vibes, or any melodic instrument that likes to play without harmonic accompaniment
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play the melody
-- solo 3 choruses
-- play the out melody and coda
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Freddie Redd
May 29, 1928 – March 17, 2021
Pianist Freddie Redd, best known for his role as composer and actor in the play and movie "The Connection," started playing the piano when he was in the Army. Mostly self-taught, he learned while performing in clubs with other musicians. According to Nat Hentoff's liner notes to "Shades Of Redd," Freddie says he's "been influenced by many things I've heard on a lot of instruments. What I do is try to piece together what stimulates me into my own way of feeling things musically." Redd's music is simultaneously optimistic and knowing—it makes you want to play along with it, to join in the experience. Read more...
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