KEESTER PARADE

Created on 07/11/2005
Latest update on 12/02/2024

Artist: Cy Touff Octet
Author: Johnny Mandel
Label: Pacific Jazz
Year: 1956

Feat. Harry Sweets Edison on trumpet and Leroy Vinnegar on bass.

Covers:

1957:

Chubby Jackson

1958:

Harry 'Sweets' Edison [as Centerpiece with Jimmy Forrest and crediting himself]

1959:

Coleman Hawkins [idem]

1959:

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross [first vocal version; lyrics: Jon Hendricks and with Harry 'Sweets' Edison on trumpet]

1959:

John Coltrane [idem]

1959:

Milt Jackson [idem]

1975:

Joni Mitchell [as centerpiece of Harry's House (see also: Twisted)]

1995:

Van Morrison & Georgie Fame & Friends [idem]

2001:

Curtis Stigers [plays the sax part himself]

Theme borrowed from a riff by Al Cohn in Woody Herman's Tiny's Blues (Gabardine And Serge), written by Tiny Kahn and first recorded by Serge Chaloff (for Savoy in '47).

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