Billie's Bounce

"Billie's Bounce"
Song

"Billie's Bounce" (also known as "Bill's Bounce") is a jazz composition written in 1945 by Charlie Parker in the form of a 12 bar F blues. It was dedicated to Billy Shaw by the Yardbird. The original recording by Charlie Parker and His Re-Boppers was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. Copyright 1945 by Atlantic Music Corp. Copyright renewed and assigned 1973 to Atlantic Music Corp.

Originally an instrumental, lyrics were added later by Jon Hendricks.

Personnel

The original 1945 recording had the following lineup:

• Charlie Parker – Eb alto saxophone
• Miles Davis – Bb trumpet
• Dizzy Gillespie – piano (Gillespie also plays trumpet in other recordings from the same session)
• Curley Russell – bass
• Max Roach – drums

Renditions

• Ben Webster and the Modern Jazz Quartet – 1953: An Exceptional Encounter (1953)
• Shelly Manne – The Three and the Two (1954)
• Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson – Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)
• Wes Montgomery – Fingerpickin (1957)
• Bud Powell – Bud Plays Bird (1958)
• Red Garland – Dig It! (recorded in 1957-58, released in 1962)
• Betty Roche – Singin' and Swingin' (1960)
• Clare Fischer – Surging Ahead (1963)
• Don Byas – Anthropology (1963)
• Albert Ayler – My Name Is Albert Ayler (Debut, 1964)
• George Benson – Giblet Gravy (1968)
• Ella Fitzgerald – Montreux '77 (1977)
• Johnny Griffin – Birds and Ballads (1978)
• Robert Wyatt – Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 (1981/2009)
• Bobby Enriquez, with Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, and Poncho Sanchez –The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez (1981)
• Keith Jarrett – Still Live (1986); Tokyo '96 (1998)
• Milcho Leviev and Dave Holland – Up & Down (1987)
• Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Masque (1987)
• Oscar Peterson – Encore at the Blue Note (1990)
• Dizzy Gillespie – To Bird with Love (Telarc, 1992)
• David Murray – Saxmen (1993)
• The Stimulators – Style (2006)

See also

Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial Sessions