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The song became a Jazz Standard , with hundreds of versions performed and recorded by dozens of artists. The most famous of these is the Take recorded by Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra on October 11 , 1939 at their only recording session for Bluebird , a subsidiary of RCA Victor . Hawkins' Solo on this take is considered to be "one of the finest examples of pure, spontaneous creative artistry in the history of Jazz ." It was one of the first straight jazz Record s (as against Swing ) to become a commercial hit. This was unusual, as the song's Melody is never directly stated in the recording; Saxophonist Hawkins two-choruses worth of Improvisation on the tune's Chord Progression constitute almost the entire take.Gary Giddins, "How Come Jazz Isn't Dead", p. 39–55 in Eric Weisbard, ed., ''This is Pop'', Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01321-2 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-01344-1 (paper). p. 45. In 2004 , it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library Of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry .Number 18 on The National Recording Registry 2004 , accessed online 14 August 2007. NOTES |
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