[Dixielandjazz] Standard Keys

[Flip Oakes]

Back in 1978-1979 I played La
Costa Resort 6 nights a week, Hoagy Carmichael would come in every so often
on a Sunday afternoon. While Murray Arnold was the leader, he would ask
Hoagy to sit in, and he would. Every time he sat in he would play Stardust
in Db.... 

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on 12/8/09 1:22 PM, Robert Ringwald at rsr at ringwald.com wrote:

>  Ken Mathieson wrote:
> 
>> In a lot of cases, standard keys for instrumental performances have been
>> arrived at simply on the basis of the ranges of the principal instruments.
>> For instance, the original song sheet of Body and Soul is in C, but it's now
>> pretty well universally played in Db, following Coleman Hawkins's famous
>> recording, as it sits comfortably for saxes and trumpet in that key (i.e. it
>> avoids going too low or too high, so instrumental timbres are optimised).
> (snip)
> 
> I read recently that Stardust was written in the key of C by Carmichael.  Most
> everyone now plays it in the key of D flat.
> 
> --Bob Ringwald
> 
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