Do Do Do (What Now is Next)

"... heh, heh, heh... heh, heh, heh... On with the music, on with the show. Ladies and gentlemen, with a nice round of applause, may we say - The Cannonball Adderley Quintet!" Do do do... and the band launches into Nat Adderley's "Do Do Do (What Now is Next)".

That's the opening of the first song on the first jazz record I ever bought, "74 Miles Away / Walk Tall". "Do Do Do" has a great double-time groove which never fails to move me. It's basically a blues, modified to a 32-bar song form. It was also recorded by The Three Sounds, but I've never heard that version. I don't know if Gail Fisher's (Mannix's secretary) lyrics were ever recorded.

I wrote out the tune a couple of years ago, but we've never used it. You can try it out:

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Confirmation

"Confirmation" is the last of my 1940's Charlie Parker sheet music. As you can see, Capitol Songs also published "Moose the Mooche", but I don't have it.

I do have more in this series, though, and I'll try to post them later.

This arrangement, again by Morris Feldman, includes transcriptions of solos by Dizzy Gillespie and Al Haig.

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Yardbird Suite

Charlie Parker's "Yardbird Suite" is in several of the fakebooks, and is probably more useful in that form, but I think this sheet music from 1948 is pretty cool. It came from the estate sale where I made the biggest score of my record collecting life. I've mentioned it before ("52nd Street Theme", "Recorded by Basie").

This piano arrangement is by Morris Feldman, and includes transcriptions of 3 solos by Charlie Parker, Lucky Thompson and Dodo Marmarosa (but not Miles Davis!). I don't know how accurate they are.

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