Groovin' High
1947 song by Dizzy Gillespie / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Groovin' High" is an influential 1945 song by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The song was a bebop mainstay that became a jazz standard,[1] one of Gillespie's best known hits,[2] and according to Bebop: The Music and Its Players author Thomas Owens, "the first famous bebop recording".[3] The song is a complex musical arrangement based on the chord structure of the 1920 standard originally recorded by Paul Whiteman, "Whispering", with lyrics by John Schonberger and Richard Coburn (né Frank Reginald DeLong; 1886–1952) and music by Vincent Rose.[2] The biography Dizzy characterizes the song as "a pleasant medium-tempo tune" that "demonstrates...[Gillespie's] skill in fashioning interesting textures using only six instruments".[2]
"Groovin' High" | |
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Song by Dizzy Gillespie | |
from the album Dizzy Gillespie and His All Stars | |
Released | March, 1947 |
Recorded | February 9, 1945 |
Genre | Jazz, bebop |
Length | 2:38 |
Label | Musicraft |
Composer(s) | Dizzy Gillespie |
The song has been used to title many compilation albums and also the 2001 biography Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie.[4]