One of my favorite jazz standards is "All of Me." In my humble opinion, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Erroll Garner and perhaps Louis Armstrong recorded the most endearing versions of the song. Songwriters Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons indubitably struck gold when they composed this in 1931. Since then, it has been part of the repertoire of many jazz musicians and singers.
Here is Billie Holiday and Lester Young's version of the tune, recorded in 1941. Unfortunately this take lacks Young's tenor solo
Here is Erroll Garner's bouncy and swingin' interpretation. Perhaps my favorite
Django Reinhardt also played the piece
Louis Armstrong
I know you've said it countless times that these videos are for you to just click'n play whenev. you want, but can I suggest you write why you like these certain versions of the song?
ReplyDeleteElaborating on why you like'em then illustrating the very reasons would add more to just listening to the song 5 times in a row...
Maybe an analysis on each of the version - a compare and contrast thing would be awesome.
Just a thought, but indeed, these are very soothing... and great versions of All of Me.
Point of Clarification: Illustrating by just posting them...
ReplyDeleteIndeed, I should elaborate on several of these posts but I've been too lazy to do such a thing
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