Saturday, February 24, 2024

The Three Sounds - On Green Dolphin Street

This video features The Three Sounds performing On Green Dolphin Street from their Moods CD. Leonard Feather offered these comments about the tune’s background and the trio’s arrangement.

On Green Dolphin Street is a Hollywood movie melody by Bronislaw Kaper, whose previous peripheral association with jazz came through part-authorship of All God's Children Got Rhythm. Here again Harris uses the extended-introduction technique, built here around the tonic chord, with the melody gently moving in against an E Flat pedal point and the second chorus swinging loosely in exuberant contrast. A return to the pedal point leads to a discreet fade at the end.”

With Andy Simpkins on bass and Bill Dowdy on drums