Fidgety Feet

Fidgety Feet is a Dixieland jazz standard, first recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in June 1918. The more acclaimed version is the 1924 recording by The Wolverines, with Bix Beiderbecke. It is not to be confused with the George Gershwin song of the same name that appears in the 1926 musical Oh, Kay!.

History

The composition is attributed to Nick LaRocca and Larry Shields,[1] of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who first recorded it New York on June 25, 1918, and released it on Victor 18564.[2]

The Wolverines, featuring Bix Beiderbecke, recorded a hit version of the song on 18 February 1924.[3] Fletcher Henderson's orchestra recorded the tune on 19 March 1927, and it was released on July 7 of that year.[4]

Notable jazz artists who later recorded it include Bud Freeman, Kid Ory and His Creole Band, Red Allen, Sidney Bechet, and Wingy Manone, and stride pianists Willie "The Lion" Smith and Dick Wellstood.

Composition

It begins in B-flat major and modulates to A-flat major. Beiderbecke biographer Jean Pierre Lion wrote that the 1918 original recording was "played at a jumpy tempo, sounds mechanical, and the trombone' s plaintive breaks are dated" . He approved more of the Wolverines recording which was recorded at a slower tempo, stating that it is more "relaxed and varied, breaks are more sophisticated, and Jimmy Hatwell's solo, using the lower register is deeply original. Lion states that Beiderbecke avoided repetition on the second time through the chorus inserting "some graceful melodic lines within a rich harmony".[5]

References

  1. ^ "Fidgety Feet". Jazzstandards.com. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Fidgety feet". Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  3. ^ Hoffman, Frank (2004). Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound. Routledge. p. 1070. ISBN 9781135949501.
  4. ^ "Fidgety Feet". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  5. ^ Lion, Jean Pierre (2005). Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend. Bloomsbury. p. 63. ISBN 9780826416995.

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