Artist: Cootie Williams Orch.
Author: Thelonious Monk/Cootie Williams
Label: Hit
Year: 1944
Trumpet player & bandleader; the first to release a Monk tune (Epistrophy in '42), landing him coauthorship purely out of gratitude.
Covers:
Tempo Jazz Men [on Dual with Dizzy Gillespie, who came up with the intro and cadenza defining the tune]
Dizzy Gillespie [with Monk]
Thelonious Monk [author on Blue Note]
Jimmy McGriff [version used as Radio Caroline's closedown track in the years before they went 24/7]
Herbie Hancock & Bobby McFerrin [film title theme]
Molly Johnson [with Big Sugar]
Amy Winehouse [saved up for Frank deluxe]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)