Walt Smith - Harlem Nocturne (Hagen/Rogers)

Walt Smith - Harlem Nocturne (Hagen/Rogers) played at the 2011 Fife Jazz Festival at the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews.

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"Harlem Nocturne" is a jazz standard written by Earle Hagen and Dick Rogers in 1939. The song was adopted by bandleader Randy Brooks the next year as his theme song.
"Harlem Nocturne" has been frequently recorded. Artists include the Glenn Miller Orchestra, The Lounge Lizards, Duke Ellington, Harry James, Earl Bostic, King Curtis, Anton Szandor LaVey, Herbie Fields, Willy Deville, David Sanborn, and guitarist Danny Gatton. The song peaked at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1966 for The Viscounts.
In 1990, pianist Kofi gained popularity in the instrumental world for her cover from the album of the same name "Harlem Nocturne".
It was also the theme song for the television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Earle Harry Hagen (July 9, 1919 — May 26, 2008) was an American composer who created music for movies and television. He is remembered for co-writing and whistling "The Fishin' Hole", the melody of the main theme to The Andy Griffith Show, the instrumental classic "Harlem Nocturne" used as the theme to television's Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, and co-wrote the theme song to Tim Conway's Western comedy Rango.

(Earle Hagen was born in Chicago, Illinois, and as a boy he moved with his family to Los Angeles, California, where he learned to play the trombone in junior high school, and graduated from Hollywood High School. He left home to join traveling big bands, at age 16, and played with Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Ray Noble. While with Noble he wrote "Harlem Nocturne",[citation needed] on the road in 1939, as a tribute to Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges. The piece was recorded by several artists, including Earl Bostic, The Viscounts, Sam Taylor, Herbie Fields, Randy Brooks, and The Lounge Lizards, and was later used as the theme to television's Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.)

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[linogiord]

sound of Peter Eaton clarinet..

[drazzouk]

Fantastic! Which clarinet you use?

[c4rv3r]

Now this is what I call a haunting clarinet sound! Got thrill right with the couple of first notes! Thanks again for sharing! :)

[cannoneblu]

Absolutely fantastic !!! compliments from Italy

[pildskadden]

Hey! Beautiful! But don't know why YouTube directed me here (maybe cause I was searching Ellington?) - it's OK though, since I really like this. Good, tight arrangement. :0)

[brianellwood]

Lovely playing ,doing justice to a great atmospheric tune . Like the glisses! Well done everyone.

[tisbamar]

One of my favourites!!! Very nice music very well played by Walt and your musicians.

Go ahead. That's is it!!! Congratulations from BraSil.

Greetings.

Marcelo (MarceloBatista1 - Youtube channel)