"Doodlin'" is a composition by Horace Silver. The original version, by Silver's quintet, was recorded on November 13, 1954. It was soon covered by other musicians, including with lyrics added by Jon Hendricks. It has become a jazz standard.[1]
"Doodlin'" is a 12-bar blues.[2] Reviewer Bill Kirchner suggests: "Take a simple riff, rhythmically displace it several times over D-flat blues harmonies, resolve it with a staccato, quasi-humorous phrase, and you have 'Doodlin' '."[3]
Original recording
The original version featured Silver on piano, with Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Doug Watkins (bass), and Art Blakey (drums). It is played as a "medium-tempo blues with a two-beat feel".[4] Silver's solo is largely blues-based, with little influence from bebop, and is formed around motifs.[4]
"Doodlin'" was released as a single along with "The Preacher"; the pairing "might be the first example of a jazz hit single going on to boost sales of its source album – or, as here, albums".[2] They helped popularize hardbop.[5]
^Yanow, Scott (2003) Jazz on Record – The First Sixty Years. Backbeat. p. 363.
^ abCook, Richard (2004), Blue Note Records – The Biography. Justin, Charles & Co., p. 73.
^Kirchner, Bill, "Horace Silver: Doodlin'" March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. jazz.com Retrieved September 13, 2015.
^ abRosenthal, David H. (1993), Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955–1965. Oxford University Press, p. 38.
^"Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers – Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers". AllMusic. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
^Yanow, Scott "Ray Charles – The Great Ray Charles". AllMusic. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
^ abYanow, Scott "Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan – Live at Basin Street East". AllMusic. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
^Hajdu, David (July 1, 2011), "Hendricks and Ross: Doodlin' Again", New Republic.
January 06, 2023
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