| "Groovin' High" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Dizzy Gillespie | |
| from the album Dizzy Gillespie and His All Stars | |
| Released | March, 1947 |
| Recorded | February 9, 1945 |
| Genre | Jazz, bebop |
| Length | 2:38 |
| Label | Musicraft |
| Composer(s) | Dizzy Gillespie |
"Groovin' High" is an influential 1945 song by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The song was a bebop mainstay that became a jazz standard,[1] one of Gillespie's best known hits,[2] and according to Bebop: The Music and Its Players author Thomas Owens, "the first famous bebop recording".[3] The song is a complex musical arrangement based on the chord structure of the 1920 standard originally recorded by Paul Whiteman, "Whispering", with lyrics by John Schonberger and Richard Coburn (né Frank Reginald DeLong; 1886–1952) and music by Vincent Rose.[2] The biography Dizzy characterizes the song as "a pleasant medium-tempo tune" that "demonstrates...[Gillespie's] skill in fashioning interesting textures using only six instruments".[2]
The song has been used to title many compilation albums and also the 2001 biography Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie.[4]
- ^ Martin, Henry; Keith Waters (2005). Jazz: The First 100 Years. Thomson Wadsworth. pp. 203, 209. ISBN 0-534-62804-4.
- ^ a b c Maggin, Donald L. (2005). Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie. Harper Collins. pp. 167. ISBN 0-688-17088-9.
- ^ Owens, Thomas (1996-05-23). Bebop: The Music and Its Players. Oxford University Press. p. 14. ISBN 0-19-510651-2.
- ^ Shipton, Alyn (2001). Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514410-4.