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-"'''Bemsha Swing'''" (also known as "'''Bimsha Swing'''") is a [[jazz standard]] co-written by [[Thelonious Monk]] and [[Denzil Best]].
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-==Composition==
-The tune is 16 bars in the form of AABA.  It is in 4/4 meter but is often played with a 2-feel.<ref>''The Thelonious Monk Fake Book,'' Steve Cardenas (transcriber), Don Sickler (editor). Hal Leonard, 2002, p. 9.</ref> The 4-bar melody is essentially in C major but borrows tones from the parallel C minor scale, and is transposed up a fourth to create the B section of the form. Thelonious Monk and Denzil Best wrote “Bemsha Swing” in 1952, with the copyright application showing the title as “Bimsha Swing”. The word Bemsha comes from the word “Bimshire” or “little Bimshire”, a nickname for Barbados, Denzil Best’s family home. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://kuvo.org/post/bemsha-swing-stories-standards#stream/0 |title=Bemsha Swing: Stories of Standards |last=Hillshafer |first=Linda |date=15 Aug 2016 |website=kuvo.org |access-date=22 Nov 2017}}
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-==Recording history==
-The song was first recorded by Monk on the sessions for the album ''[[Thelonious Monk Trio]]'' in 1952. Soon after, in 1954, it was later recorded with Monk as a sideman on the [[Miles Davis]] album ''[[Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants]]'', which was released in 1959. Monk himself revisited the song on his acclaimed 1957 LP ''[[Brilliant Corners]]''.
-Besides Davis the tune became favoured by many others. After its initial publication [[free Jazz]] pianist [[Cecil Taylor]] covered the tune on his 1956 album ''[[Jazz Advance]]''. Four years later, in 1960, sax player [[John Coltrane]] recorded a version with [[Don Cherry]] on their ''[[The Avant-Garde (album)|The Avant-Garde]]'' (released 1966). [[Ed Blackwell]] was on drums at that session with whom Cherry revisited the track on their duo record ''[[El Corazón (Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell album)|El Corazón]]'' in 1982. Cherry recalled the tune again on his 1989 ''[[Art Deco (album)|Art Deco]]''.
-In 1963 [[Bill Evans]] released a piano solo interpretation on his acclaimed record ''[[Conversations with Myself (album)|Conversations with Myself]]''. Slightly more than two decades later [[Geri Allen]] recorded another piano solo version on her ''[[Home Grown (Geri Allen album)|Home Grown]]'' in 1985. The year after trumpeter [[Woody Shaw]] put the tune on record and released it in 1997 on his [[Bemsha Swing (album)|album of the same name]].
-The [[funk rock]] band [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] covered the song during their 1989-90 [[Mother's Milk Tour]], renaming their version "F.U." and adding some lyrics. A live version can be found on their ''[[Out In L.A.]]'' album. Their bassist, [[Flea (musician)|Flea]], is a huge fan of Thelonious Monk. Bass fellow [[Charlie Haden]], who was included in Coltrane's record, played the tune with guitarist [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] in 1990, which appeared on their duo record ''Charlie Haden/Jim Hall'' in 2014.
-[[Keith Jarrett]] played the composition in 1991 together with his "Standard Trio" on their live record ''[[The Cure (Keith Jarrett album)|The Cure]]''. Two years later, in 1993, American jazz trio [[Medeski Martin & Wood]] covered the song with “Lively Up Yourself” by Bob Marley in one track, “Bemsha Swing-Lively Up Yourself,” for their album ''It's a Jungle in Here''. Swedish jazz pianist [[Esbjörn Svensson]] released it on a tribute album to Monk in 1996 called ''EST plays Monk''. They also issued  a live version in their DVD of a Concert at Stockholm in 2002.
-Later on, in 2002, [[jazz fusion]] guitarist [[Larry Coryell]] covered the song on his album ''Cedars of Avalon''.<ref>{{cite web|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r608274|pure_url=yes}}|title=Cedars of Avalon overview |work=[[Allmusic|Allmusic.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/review_print.php?id=10713|title=Cedars of Avalon|work=[[All About Jazz]]|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041106101518/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/review_print.php?id=10713|archivedate=2004-11-06|df=}}</ref>
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-[[Category:1950s jazz standards]]
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