I am at the moment listening to the Will Cash Quartet on their myspace page.  Which you can find here:  Will Cash Quartet I mention it because you have a chance to hear them live and in person on Friday night at Ona’s Music Room.

The tune in particular is “Billies Bounce”.  You can learn more about the tune by going to http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/billiesbounce.htm where you will learn, if you didn’t already know, that it is an F-major blues by Charlie Parker recorded November 1945.  That band included Miles Davis, Max Roach, Curley Russell and Dizzy Gillespie (on piano).

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