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Thread #168142 Message #4061720
Posted By: keberoxu
27-Jun-20 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: vocalese: Cloudburst (Jon Hendricks)
Subject: Cloudburst: Kirkland/Harris/Hendricks
This is one of the great vocalese accomplishments:
an instrumental written by Leroy Kirkland,
performed in a 1955 recording by his band (pseudonym name),
with Sam Taylor playing the tenor saxophone solo.
Don't know the trumpet soloist's name.
But the tenor sax and trumpet solos,
along with the instrumental choruses in this single,
are the musical raw material to which
Jon Hendricks, of the vocal group
Lambert Hendricks & Ross,
fitted a rapid-fire lyrical text.
Although I am after Hendricks's lyrics,
I wanted to open this thread
with the instrumental 1955 single that started it all.
"Cloudburst": Claude Cloud and his Thunderclaps