Havana Swing - Out Of Nowhere (Johnny Green)

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Uploaded by on Jul 15, 2008

Havana Swing play Out Of Nowhere by Johnny Green at the first annual Montrose Jazz Festival

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"Out of Nowhere" is a popular song composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman. It was first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1931 and became his first number one hit as a solo artist. It has become a jazz standard, with dozens of instrumental and vocal versions by various artists.

Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins's instrumental 1937 version with Benny Carter and Django Reinhardt became very successful, and Hawkins's performance on the song was so intimidating that no tenor saxophone player tried the tune until eight years later, when Don Byas recorded it. Charlie Parker recorded a ballad version in 1947.

The song's harmony has been used in several later songs, such as Tadd Dameron's "Casbah", Fats Navarro's "Nostalgia" and Lennie Tristano's "317 East 32nd Street"

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  • nice tasteful and swinging sound.

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  • Great singing, was looking for a nice version of this song. Thank you!

  • Very nice swing to this. I am enjoying!

  • I watched the whole movie

    compliments!

  • bass player is a hunk

  • This man is the next Sinatra .........Nancy that is

  • great!

  • Yeah! really good singer. good band too!

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