July Song Of The Month--Night & Day

Willie

The key of the Reisman/Astaire version posted by @Lango-Django and in the 1934 movie "The Gay Divorcee".is Eb, the original key of the composition. Real Book key is C (Vocal Real Book has different keys depending on high or low voice if I remember right). When I sang the tune with Hamburg Sinti musicians they played it in D. Whatever key, I love starting the chorus with the original bVImaj7 instead of the IIm7b5,

Buco

@Bones actually soloing around the key works very well in Djangology, I suspect it'll work for Night and Day. I did that a lot. Nowadays I play more short phrases over the chords themselves using arps or targeting chord tones then when it comes to 251 part, I play one of, or a variation of licks I have.

DoubleWhisky

I made a transcription of the intro to my favorite Django version ('49) of Night and Day as I couldn't find it anywhere online:

https://youtu.be/0zJkT2YtqKU

Also made my first steps in soundslice for this, but please ignore the notation, I don't know anything about that, I only worked on the tabulature:

https://www.soundslice.com/slices/6thyc/

AndyW

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/111624#Comment_111624

I can't see any particular fingering issue playing it in E on clarinet (i.e. D concert), on commonly-seen Boehm-system instruments. Your mileage may vary, however, particularly on Albert-system.

-A-

pdg

In D, the opening chord is, I think, Bbmaj7, instead of Em7b5. To my ear, it's one thing that distinguishes it from run-of-the-mill chord progressions. (But maybe I just picked it up from someone else's version long ago.)