Lady Bird [No Piano] - Up Tempo Swing || BACKING TRACK

Head In x2, Solo x16, Head Out x2
Up Tempo Swing 210 BPM

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Composer: Tadd Dameron

Year: 1939

Origin: First recorded on a session for Blue Note Records in 1948.

Style: Swing, played at a wide variety of tempos.

Form: A-B (16 Bars) [8-8]
The head is usually played twice on the way in and out.

Key: C Major

Harmony/Overview: The harmony of this composition is mostly functional, being predominantly made up of II - V's. The A section begins on IMaj7 before a II - V of bIII. Instead of resolving to bIII however it returns back to IMaj7 before a II - V sets up bVIMaj7. The B section begins on bVIMaj7 and also moves through various II - V's. The final turnaround of the piece (I Maj7 - bIII Maj7 - bVI Maj7 - bII Maj7) has become massively influential, being used frequently among improvisers, arrangers, and composers alike. Miles Davis would use the changes of this piece as the basis of his composition "Half Nelson", and iconic turnaround can also be heard on the Kenny Dorham blues "An Oscar For Oscar".

Recordings: This song has been recorded over 90 times to date and is one of the many Tadd Dameron compositions to become a standard. Tadd Dameron first recorded it himself with his Sextet on a 1948 session for Blue Note Records, and he would also record it the following year with Miles Davis. It continues to be performed frequently to this day and is a jam session mainstay.

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Tadd Dameron (with Miles Davis), Live at Salle Pleyel, 1949
The Jazz Messengers, The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia, 1955
Dexter Gordon, More Power!, 1969

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