[Dixielandjazz] Re: "Twinkle, Twinkle" the same as "Wonderful World"?

[Laurence Swain]

Larry Walton wrote:

> I also don't agree at all that
> Melodic jazz is a disparaging term akin to elevator music. An example
> of this is Louis Armstrong's "What a wonderful World"  Very few
> people, even musicians, recognize this as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
> until they are told that's what it is.  This is a perfect example of
> hiding something in plain sight and converting a children's tune via
> Jazz into something entirely different.

This is a stretch, at best. 

At worst, it's dead wrong. 

There are 4 chords in Twinkle: C, C7 (not even sure this one is in Haydn's original, as the 
tune sounds fine without it), F, G7.

There are more, and some dramatically different, chords in Wonderful.

Even asserting that "jazzing up" Twinkle brings us Wonderful is a stretch on what 
improvising is in OKOM.

Larry Swain 
l.swain at comcast.net