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Stories of Standards—Night in Tunisisa Linda Hillshafer Share Tune in weekday mornings to hear our favorite versions of “Night in Tunisia.” Rodney Franks presents Stories of Standards Monday through Friday at 7:50 and 8:50 am beginning Monday, April 12! Stories of Standards is sponsored by ListenUp. Dizzy Gillespie  wrote “Night in Tunisia” in 1942; it was first recorded in 1944 under the title “Interlude.” It may have been written while Gillespie was playing with the Benny Carter Band; Gillespie said he composed it on the piano at Kelly’s Stables, a jazz clu...

Stories of Standards—Epistrophy Tune in weekday mornings to hear our favorite versions of “ Epistrophy.” Rodney Franks presents Stories of Standards Monday through Friday at 7:50 and 8:50 am! Stories of Standards is sponsored by Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke composed “Epistrophy” in 1941; Cootie Williams and his Orchestra first recorded the song in April 1942 under the title “Fly Right” and again in 1948, using the title “Epistrophy”, as the B side of Thelonious Monk’s single “In Walked Bud”. The word “epistrophe,” pronounced ɛˈpɪstrəfi, refers to a literar...

Stories of Standards—Bluesette Tune in weekday mornings for Stories of Standards to hear our favorite versions of “ Bluesette.” Rodney Franks presents Stories of Standards Monday through Friday at 7:50 and 8:50 am starting Monday, February 22! Stories of Standards is sponsored by   Composed in the key of B♭, “ Bluesette” (1961) was first recorded in 1961 and released in 1964 on “The Whistler and His Guitar” with Thielemans playing guitar and whistling; he said of it, “If there’s a piece of music that describes me, it’s that song.” Norman Gimbel added lyrics in 1964. T...

Stories of Standards—Nardis by Miles Davis Linda Hillshafer Share Tune in weekday mornings to hear our favorite versions of “Nardis.” Rodney Franks presents Stories of Standards Monday through Friday at 7:50 and 8:50 am! Stories of Standards is sponsored by   . “Nardis” was composed in 1958 by Miles Davis during his “modal phase”, to be played by Cannonball Adderley on his album “Portrait of Cannonball.” It is strongly associated with Bill Evans, who recorded it many times. Davis was leading the “First Great Quintet” in 1958, which consisted of John Colt...

Stories of Standards—I Got Rhythm Linda Hillshafer Share Tune in weekday mornings to hear our favorite versions of “I Got Rhythm.” Rodney Franks presents Stories of Standards Monday through Friday at 7:50 and 8:50 a.m.! Stories of Standards is sponsored by   . George and Ira Gershwin wrote “I Got Rhythm” for the 1930 Broadway musical “Girl Crazy”, where it was introduced by Ethel Merman in her Broadway debut. While Ginger Rogers made her debut here as a leading lady, Ethel Merman got the press. The Red Nichols Band, including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Jack Te...