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Smooch has been recorded a few times under different titles: Smooch, Weird Nightmare, Pipe Dream, and Vassarlean.
Mingus wrote it with lyrics and recorded it as Weird Nightmare in the mid-1940s. Without the lyrics, he retitled it Smooch, and played piano on it on the Miles Davis 1953 album Blue Haze, which inexplicably lists Miles as its co-writer, and which was the earliest jazz album I owned.
Here's a YouTube clip of that recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0_ZfHfV9rU
The tune is alphabetized as Weird Nightmare in the Mingus collection More Than a Fake Book.
Smooch (Weird Nightmare) - Charles Mingus
Cheers,
Jer
Mingus wrote it with lyrics and recorded it as Weird Nightmare in the mid-1940s. Without the lyrics, he retitled it Smooch, and played piano on it on the Miles Davis 1953 album Blue Haze, which inexplicably lists Miles as its co-writer, and which was the earliest jazz album I owned.
Here's a YouTube clip of that recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0_ZfHfV9rU
The tune is alphabetized as Weird Nightmare in the Mingus collection More Than a Fake Book.
Smooch (Weird Nightmare) - Charles Mingus
Cheers,
Jer
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