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Here's one of my favorite jazz tunes. We played a fairly simple arrangement of this song in my high school jazz band, and it was the first Latin chart I ever took a swing at playing. The pattern that was written out on the page is one that has stuck with me through the years. I can still play it, right now, and I don't know that I'll ever forget it. There was a lot more to the song than that pattern, though.
As I looked down the page, I saw that it switched to a swing feel. I thought, "man, how is that gonna work," and I asked the band director for a recording of the song. He gave me the one that came with the chart. I listened to it, and I began to seek out every version of the song I could find, which, in 2002 with dial up internet and no YouTube to speak of, yet, was hard to do. Regardless, I pulled it together, and I think this song is responsible for my love affair of switching from swing to straight time and back. The song was written by Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Paparelli, and it has since become a jazz standard.
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