The beauty and sophistication of Tadd Dameron's compositions and arrangements are impossibly seductive. Let's extend the Dameronia week with five YouTube clips:
Here's Vanessa Rubin singing Dameron's On a Misty Night...
Here's John's Delight in 1947, named for a line guitarist John Collins conceived...
Here's Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1947 playing Good Bait...
Here's Barry Harris playing Casbah...
And here's a young woman playing Ladybird...
Here's Vanessa Rubin singing Dameron's On a Misty Night...
Here's John's Delight in 1947, named for a line guitarist John Collins conceived...
Here's Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1947 playing Good Bait...
Here's Barry Harris playing Casbah...
And here's a young woman playing Ladybird...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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