All The Things You Are - Dizzy Gillespie - 1945

All The Things You Are
Bebop

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
Instrumental
Writers: Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II

Instrumentation: Trumpet, Alto Saxophone, Guitar, Piano, Bass, and Drums
Dizzy Gillespie (Trumpet)
Charlie Parker (Alto Saxophone)
Remo Palmieri (Guitar)
Clyde Hart (Piano)
Slam Stewart (Bass)
Harold "Doc" West (Drums)

Musicraft Album S-7
Catalog Number: Musicraft 488
Matrix Number: Guild G556-A (10", 78 RPM)
Place and Take Date: New York NY, 1945-02-28
Reverse side: Dizzy Atmosphere

All eight recordings of this album:
1. A Hand Fulla Gimme
2. Groovin' High
3. Blue N' Boogie
4. Hot House
5. Ray's Idea
6. He Beeped When He Shoulda' Bopped
7. All The Things You Are
8. Dizzy Atmosphere

The names of the musicians who took part in the recording are based on the information on the back cover of the album.

The introduction to the recording of “All The Things You Are” by Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) and Charlie Parker (alto saxophone) from February 28, 1945, represents a groundbreaking innovation in early bebop. This brief, unison passage that opens the track is not an original component of the 1939 Broadway song by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II but rather a creative addition by the musicians. It is based on a parodistic adaptation of a motif from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3 No. 2 (also known as “The Bells of Moscow”), characterized by its dramatic, descending melodic line [Gioia, Ted. (n.d.). Quotes & Sayings About Rachmaninoff. Retrieved from https://quotessayings.net/topics/rachmanin...]. This reference blends classical Romanticism with the energetic, syncopated aesthetic of bebop, serving as a dramaturgical prelude that draws listeners into the complex harmonic world of the standard.