[Dixielandjazz] Standard Keys

[John McClernan]

My friend, cornetist extraordinaire Scott Black, says he carried on a  
personal correspondence with Carmichael when Scott was a teenager.  
Carmichael told Scott he wrote it in C.
Right, Scott?
Cheers,
John




On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Robert Ringwald 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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