Sunday, March 23, 2025

Charlie Barnet Orchestra: Over the rainbow. (1949) - Tiny Kahn arrangement

This takes about 20 seconds for the music to kick in.

Tiny was very advanced harmonically. His arrangement of Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow" for the Barnet band indicates where he was going. He wrote it in Salt Lake City in two days.


The loss of Tiny Kahn was devastating. He meant so much to music and to those who knew him. Everybody learned something from Tiny. If you talked to or hung out with him, played in one of the bands that employed him or analyzed his writing, you came away with something.”

- Manny Albam, composer-arranger