CHEROKEE

Created on 11/01/2016
Latest update on 02/08/2023

Artist: Ray Noble Orch.
Author: Ray Noble
Label: HMV
Year: 1938

English bandleader. First part of his Indian Suite along with Comanche War Dance, Iroquois, Seminole and Sioux Sue. Jazz standard. Ray also wrote The Very Thought Of You.

Covers:

1939:

Charlie Barnet [top 20 US]

1942:

Charlie Parker [and in '45 as the foundation for Ko-Ko]

1945:

Don Byas

1946:

Peggy Lee [in film Jasper In A Jam]

1950:

Bud Powell [with Max Roach]

1954:

Art Tatum

1955:

Sarah Vaughan [with Cannonball Adderley]

1955:

Clifford Brown

1955:

Stan Getz & Lionel Hampton

1956:

Johnny Griffin Orch.

1957:

Jimmy Smith

1958:

Dakota Staton

1973:

Joe Pass

1987:

Wynton Marsalis

1990:

Ahmad Jamal

1995:

Rosenberg Trio

2015:

Kamasi Washington

Contact


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