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"Billie's Bounce"
"Billie's Bounce"
Composition by Charlie Parker
Released	1945
Recorded	November 1945
Genre	Jazz
Label	Savoy
Composer(s)	Charlie Parker

"Billie's Bounce" (also known as "Bill's Bounce") is a jazz composition written in 1945 by Charlie Parker in the form of a 12 bar F blues. Some sources claim that the song was dedicated to Dizzy Gillespie's agent, Billy Shaw, although according to Ross Russell, Shaw's "name was misspelled"^[1] accidentally. However, others claim that the song was in fact dedicated to Shaw's secretary, who was called Billie.^[2] The original recording by Charlie Parker and His Re-Boppers was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002.^[3]

Originally an instrumental, lyrics were added later by Jon Hendricks and by Eddie Jefferson.^[4]

Personnel

The original 1945 recording was performed by the following lineup:^[4]

Charlie Parker – E♭ alto saxophone
Miles Davis – B♭ trumpet
Dizzy Gillespie – piano (Gillespie also plays trumpet in other recordings from the same session)
Curley Russell – bass
Max Roach – drums

Renditions

Ben Webster and the Modern Jazz Quartet – 1953: An Exceptional Encounter (1953)
Shelly Manne – The Three and the Two (1954)
Metronome All-Stars – Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956)
Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson – Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)
Wes Montgomery – Fingerpickin (1957)
Bud Powell – Bud Plays Bird (1958)
Red Garland – Dig It! (recorded in 1957–58, released in 1962)
Betty Roche – Singin' & Swingin' (1960)
Clare Fischer – Surging Ahead (1963)
Don Byas – Anthropology (1963)
Dexter Gordon – Billie's Bounce (1964)
Albert Ayler – My Name Is Albert Ayler (Debut, 1964)
George Benson – Giblet Gravy (1968)
Ella Fitzgerald – Montreux '77 (1977)
Johnny Griffin – Birds and Ballads (1978)
Robert Wyatt – Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 (1981/2009)
Bobby Enriquez, with Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, and Poncho Sanchez –The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez (1981)
Keith Jarrett – Still Live (1986); Tokyo '96 (1998)
Milcho Leviev and Dave Holland – Up & Down (1987)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Masque (1987)
Oscar Peterson – Encore at the Blue Note (1990)
Dizzy Gillespie – To Bird with Love (Telarc, 1992)
David Murray – Saxmen (1993)
Tina May – Tina May – Live in Paris (2000)^[5]
The Stimulators – Style (2006)
Frank Morgan – A Night in the Life (2007)

References

^ Russell, Ross (1996). Bird Lives! The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80679-7.
^ ""Billie's Bounce" | Stories of Standards". KUVO. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
^ Grammy Hall of Fame Archived July 7, 2015, at the Wayback Machine - retrieved on 28 April 2009
^ ^a ^b Billie's Bounce at jazzstandards.com - retrieved on 28 April 2009
^ "Tina May – Live In Paris". Discogs.