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Now You Has Jazz

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Background
Notable recordings
References

"Now You Has Jazz" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society, where it was introduced by Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong. The song describes what instruments are needed to create jazz.

Background

Sol C. Siegel, the producer of the film High Society, paid Cole Porter $250,000 for his first original film score in eight years. When Porter learned that Louis Armstrong was to appear in the film, he decided that he would have to write a jazz number. To help with his research, he called Fred Astaire and suggested that they attend a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert. Later, he spoke to jazz impresario Norman Granz on the telephone and Granz gave him a short introductory course in jazz terms. The eventual song was “Now You Has Jazz.”^[1]

Notable recordings

Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong and The All Stars recorded the song on January 18, 1956^[2] for the film soundtrack and this was the version issued on the High Society album. An edited version was also issued as a single and charted briefly in the No. 88 spot in the Billboard charts. The Band personnel were Louis Armstrong (tpt); Trummy Young (tbn); Edmond Hall (clt); Billy Kyle (pno); Arvell Shaw (bs); Barrett Deems (dms).

Strangely, in the movie, four of these musicians were incorrectly identified, with Young being introduced as Hall, Hall as Young, Kyle as Shaw, and Shaw as Kyle. While it remains unclear why this was allowed to pass through in the film, in a television special made later that year with Crosby and the band, the error was corrected with the musicians correctly identified. In a later live performance by the All Stars, without Crosby and with Trummy Young filling in Crosby's part, Armstrong laughingly introduced Young as "Bing Crosby in technicolor."^[3]

Billy Crystal and The Muppets - Muppets Tonight episode (1996)

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Schwartz|first1=Charles|title=Cole Porter: A Biography|date=1979|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=New York|isbn=0306800977|page=300}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1c.html|website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby|accessdate=September 12, 2016}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Fred|title=The Crosby Collection 1926-1977|date=1986|publisher=John Joyce|location=Gateshead, UK|pages=158-159|edition=Part Four: 1951-1960}}

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