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"Dig" is a bebop jazz standard attributed to Miles Davis by Prestige Records without Davis' knowledge.[ citation needed] It was recorded on October 5, 1951 and first released on his album The New Sounds.
Its chord sequence is almost identical to that of " Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, making it a contrafact. Davis' second recording of the tune on May 9 the following year, this time for Blue Note, was called "Donna" and credited to Jackie McLean, the original composer, who played alto saxophone on both sessions ( Young Man with a Horn and Miles Davis Volume 1). [1]
"Dig" has also been played by numerous other artists such as Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Donald Byrd, Archie Shepp, Joey DeFrancesco, and Fred Firth.
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- ^ cf. Jack Chambers, Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998 (unabr. paperback ed.), pt. 1, p.158: "Dig, credited to Davis, was recorded seven month later as Donna and credited to McLean; by either title and author, it is a bebop line superimposed on the chord sequence of Sweet Georgia Brown."; Chambers (1998), p.164f: "Donna is a peculiarly methodical reading of the bouncy tune recorded under the title Dig for Prestige..."
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"Dig" is a bebop jazz standard attributed to Miles Davis by Prestige Records without Davis' knowledge.[ citation needed] It was recorded on October 5, 1951 and first released on his album The New Sounds.
Its chord sequence is almost identical to that of " Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, making it a contrafact. Davis' second recording of the tune on May 9 the following year, this time for Blue Note, was called "Donna" and credited to Jackie McLean, the original composer, who played alto saxophone on both sessions ( Young Man with a Horn and Miles Davis Volume 1). [1]
"Dig" has also been played by numerous other artists such as Sonny Rollins, Woody Herman, Donald Byrd, Archie Shepp, Joey DeFrancesco, and Fred Firth.
See also
Notes
- ^ cf. Jack Chambers, Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998 (unabr. paperback ed.), pt. 1, p.158: "Dig, credited to Davis, was recorded seven month later as Donna and credited to McLean; by either title and author, it is a bebop line superimposed on the chord sequence of Sweet Georgia Brown."; Chambers (1998), p.164f: "Donna is a peculiarly methodical reading of the bouncy tune recorded under the title Dig for Prestige..."
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