Discovery on the origins of the song "Babik" ?

Mitch

Hi to all,

I'm pretty excited, I think I've found something!

Listen to this Count Basie Song, "It's sand, man" (nothing to do with Metallica hey ...) at 0'49.

The riff is exactly the same phrase than in the A part of Django's "Babik"! years before Django recorded it and mixed it with GIllespie's "salt Peanuts" to use as B part of his "Babik"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H0RT-N_tTM

For some reasons I can't dispaly the Youtube video inside this message (?)

Jazzaferri

Its quite possible that Django heard it, maybe even copied it though with a musical memory like his it may well have been unconscious.

There is a phrase that Benny Carter uses in his solo during Farewell Blues that shows up in djangos solo in Blues Clair (gypsy with a song)

Matt Mitchell

this Duke tune sounds a lot like Cavalerie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBbV_YQimI

Joli Gadjo

Are you saying that Count Basie invented the Gypsy Jazz?
Or that Django was listening to the tune when his son was born, and that he made it his own tribute, even if not conscious ?

There might be an interesting story behind this indeed...

Joli Gadjo

Matt Mitchell wrote:

this Duke tune sounds a lot like Cavalerie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBbV_YQimI

It does sound exactly like it!!!

Mitch

This recording of the Count is 5 years older than the first recording of "Babik".
And Babik was born in 1944 !

Also (I guess everyone knows this one) Tuxedo Junction and Artillerie Lourde. Listen to the background riff that starts at 0'15


And thanks Matt for the Duke ellington track, that's obvious, I had never heard this song before.
Thanks!

bopster

There's also a similarity between Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" (1937) and Django's lick in "Rythm Futur" (1940):

Lick begins at 0:19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY