Billie's Bounce
1945 composition by Charlie Parker
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"Billie's Bounce" (also known as "Bill's Bounce") is a jazz composition written in 1945 by Charlie Parker in the form of a 12 bar F blues. Some sources claim that the song was dedicated to Dizzy Gillespie's agent, Billy Shaw, although according to Ross Russell, Shaw's "name was misspelled"[1] accidentally. However, others claim that the song was in fact dedicated to Shaw's secretary, who was called Billie.[2] The original recording by Charlie Parker and His Re-Boppers was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002.[3]
| "Billie's Bounce" | |
|---|---|
| Composition by Charlie Parker | |
| Released | 1945 |
| Recorded | November 1945 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Savoy |
| Composer | Charlie Parker |
Originally an instrumental, lyrics were added later by Jon Hendricks and by Eddie Jefferson.[4]
Personnel
The original 1945 recording was performed by the following lineup:[4]
- Charlie Parker – E♭ alto saxophone
- Miles Davis – B♭ trumpet
- Dizzy Gillespie – piano (Gillespie also plays trumpet in other recordings from the same session)
- Curley Russell – bass
- Max Roach – drums
Renditions
- Ben Webster and the Modern Jazz Quartet – 1953: An Exceptional Encounter (1953)
- Shelly Manne – The Three and the Two (1954)
- Metronome All-Stars – Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
- Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson – Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)
- Wes Montgomery – Fingerpickin (1957)
- Bud Powell – Bud Plays Bird (1958)
- Red Garland – Dig It! (recorded in 1957–58, released in 1962)
- Betty Roche – Singin' & Swingin' (1960)
- Clare Fischer – Surging Ahead (1963)
- Don Byas – Anthropology (1963)
- Dexter Gordon – Billie's Bounce (1964)
- Albert Ayler – My Name Is Albert Ayler (Debut, 1964)
- George Benson – Giblet Gravy (1968)
- Ella Fitzgerald – Montreux '77 (1977)
- Johnny Griffin – Birds and Ballads (1978)
- Robert Wyatt – Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 (1981/2009)
- Bobby Enriquez, with Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, and Poncho Sanchez –The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez (1981)
- Keith Jarrett – Still Live (1986); Tokyo '96 (1998)
- Milcho Leviev and Dave Holland – Up & Down (1987)
- Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Masque (1987)
- Oscar Peterson – Encore at the Blue Note (1990)
- Dizzy Gillespie – To Bird with Love (Telarc, 1992)
- David Murray – Saxmen (1993)
- Tina May – Tina May – Live in Paris (2000)[5]
- The Stimulators – Style (2006)
- Frank Morgan – A Night in the Life (2007)
