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"Duet" is a 1957 (©1958)[1] big band swing composition and arrangement by Neal Hefti that was part of his larger body of work for the Count Basie Orchestra. His arrangement features two muted trumpets, which – when first recorded in 1957 on The Atomic Mr. Basie – featured Thad Jones and Joe Newman.[2][3]

Discography and videography

Discography

Session / performance
date		 Artist
(leader)		 Album or
Single		 Label
(Catalog No.)		 Studio
(Venue)		 Matrix No.
21 & 22 October 1957 Count Basie and His Orchestra
(audio) 		The Atomic Mr. Basie
Joe Newman
Thad Jones
(soloists)[4] 		Roulette EPR 1520 Capitol[i]
New York
("Duet" Session No. 12472-14) 		R52003A
(Side A)
9 & 12 November 1957 Count Basie and His Orchestra
Featuring Joe Williams 		Autumn in Paris
Joe Newman
Thad Jones
(soloists) 		Magic Records (E)AWE13 Live
The Olympia
Paris
24 June – 3 July 1958 Count Basie and His Atomic Band
Featuring Joe Williams 		Count on the Coast
Featuring Joe Williams
(Vol. 2) 		Phontastic (Swd)7555
(Stockholm)
Jazz Hour (Eu)JHR73543 		Live
The Crescendo[ii]
West Hollywood 		PHONT 7555 B
(Side B)
14 January 1961 Karel Krautgartner
Jazzový Orchester 		Taneční Orchestr Československý Rozhlasu
(Czech Radio Dance Orchestra) 		Supraphon DV 10119 Prague VM 2291
(Side A)
1964 Neal Hefti and His Orchestra
(audio at 6:45) 		The Leisurely Loveliness of Neal Hefti and His Orchestra Movietone MTM1006 MTS 2006 A
(Side A)
1965 Jean Leccia (fr)
French lyrics by
Jeannine "Mimi" Perrin and
Pierre Saka (fr)[5] 		"Duet" (45 rpm) Disc AZ (fr) EP 977
Disques Vogue (distributor) 		AZ 977
10 December 1966 Wild Bill Davison
(audio) 		Memories Jazzology JCD-201 Live
Deansgate
Manchester, England
13 December 1966 Wild Bill Davison Wild Bill Davison! Fontana (E)TL5413 London
27 October 1967 Wild Bill Davison I'll Be a Friend With Pleasure Fat Cat's Jazz FCJ106 Live
Manassas Jazz Festival
Manassas, Virginia
18 November 1967 Wild Bill Davison
With Alex Welsh and His Band
(audio) 		Fidgety Feet Jazzology JCD-231 Live
Manchester Sports Guild
Manchester, England
11 December 1978 Fessor's
(Ole "Fessor" Lindgreen (sv))
Big City Jazz Band
Featuring Bill Davison
(audio) 		Wild Bill Davison with Fessor's Big City Jazz Band Storyville (Dan) SLP 421
(1997 re-release: STCD 5525) 		Copenhagen
May 1984 Joe Newman and
Joe Wilder 		Hangin' Out
"Duet" arranged by Frank Foster 		Concord Jazz CJ-262 JAC Studios
New York
3 November 1994
7 & 21 March 1995 		The Frank Capp Juggernaut
(audio) 		In a Hefti Bag[6]
Conte Candoli
Snooky Young
(soloists) 		Concord Jazz CCD-4655 (CD) Sage & Sound
Hollywood 		CCD 4655 01

Videography

Session / performance
date		 Artist
(leader)		 Featuring Label
(Catalog No.)		 Studio
(Venue)		 Archival
source
25 October 2009 Jazz Company Big Band
Directed by Gabriele Comeglio (it)
(video) 		"Duet" (video)
Emilio Soana
Pippo Colucci
(soloists) 		Live
Teatro Martinetti (it)
Garlasco, Italy 		YouTube

Sheet and folio music, arrangements and transcriptions

Fake books
For E♭ instruments: OCLC 472179616, 1100295729
For B♭ instruments: OCLC 25757824
For concert pitch instruments: OCLC 25757786
See: Real Book
Note: By inclusion of the "Duet" lead sheet in jazz oriented fake books, one might infer that it is a jazz standard, or one might infer that the editor or publisher is offering it as such.
Solo instruments
Big band
Encino Music, USA, Warner / Chappel Music Ltd., London, reproduced by permission of International Music Publications Ltd.
2 E♭ altos, 2 B♭ tenors, 1 E♭ bari; 4 B♭ trumpets; 2 B♭ tenor trombones, 1 B♭ bass trombone, 1 optional B♭ tenor trombone; guitar, piano, bass, drums with brushes
Moderate blues in E♭      4
4      quarter note = 96 Swing
C minor

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Basie's session for the Atomic album was at Capitol Studios Studio A (Capitol Records, Inc.), located in the Theater District, Midtown Manhattan, on the first floor (one floor up) in the 14-story Eaves Building at 151 West 46th Street. That studio, as a Capitol studio, flourished from 1949 to 1961. The Eaves Costume Company – still in existence, founded by Albert Grammer Eaves (1847–1900) in 1863 (160 years ago) – occupied the ground floor. The Eaves Costume Company built the building and opened it May 1, 1928. (The Sound Studies Reader, Jonathan Sterne, ed., Routledge, 2012, pps. 310–311; OCLC 916524063)
  2. ^ On June 30, July 1 and 2, 1958, the Basie Band – before closing at the Crescendo – was used to back Nat King Cole for his album, Welcome to the Club, on Capitol. For contractual reasons, Basie did not perform with his band on the album (Sheridan 1986, p. 498).

References

  1. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Musical Compositions, Third Series, Library of Congress, Copyright Office
    Vol.  12, Part 5, No. 1, January–June 1958 (1959), pg. 125
    "Duet," Neal Hefti (composer), Neal Hefti Music Inc. (copyright owner), © 9 January 1958; EU506876 (EU = Class E, unpublished)
  2. ^ Count Basie: A Bio-Discography, compiled by Chris Sheridan, Greenwood Press (1986), pps. 150, 468, 498; OCLC 1046256627
  3. ^ The Jazz Composer: Moving Music Off the Paper, by Graham Collier, Northway Publications (2009), p. 65; OCLC 895006352
  4. ^ 30-Second Jazz: The 50 Crucial Concepts, Styles and Performers, Each Explained In a Half Minute, Dave Gelly (ed.), Ivy Press (2016, 2017, 2019), p. 98; OCLC 1060581201
  5. ^ "France" (International Section), Cash Box, Vol. 26, No. 45, May 29, 1965, p. 46
  6. ^ The Jazz Discography Online, Tom Lord (ed.) (retrieved June 19, 2019); OCLC 182585494, 690104143
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