Stompin' at the Savoy

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"'''Stompin' at the Savoy'''" is a 1933 [[jazz standard]] composed by [[Edgar Sampson]]. It is named after the famed [[Harlem]] nightspot the [[Savoy Ballroom]] in New York City.<ref name="JazzStandards"/>

==History and composition==
Although the song is credited to [[Benny Goodman]], [[Chick Webb]], [[Edgar Sampson]], and [[Andy Razaf]], it was written and arranged by Sampson, [[Rex Stewart]]'s alto saxophonist. Sampson wrote the song when he was with Stewart's orchestra at the Empire Ballroom in 1933. It was used as the band's theme song until the band broke up, after which Sampson joined Webb's band, taking the song with him.<ref>McGee, Earl, "Neither Benny Nor Chuck Wrote Savoy?", ''[[DownBeat]]'' '''4''': 4, p. 21 (April 1937).</ref> Both Webb and Goodman recorded it as an instrumental, Goodman's being the bigger hit.<ref name="JazzStandards"/> Lyrics were added by lyricist Andy Razaf.<ref name="Gioia">{{cite book|last1=Gioia|first1=Ted|title=The Jazz Standards|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-993739-4|pages=405–407}}</ref>

Goodman's 1936 version is written in 32-bar song form with four 8-bar phrases arranged [[Thirty-two-bar form|AABA]]. The A sections use a Db6, Ab9, Db6, Ddim, Ebm7, Ab7, Db, Db chord sequence. The B section phrases use a Gb9/G9, Gb9, B13/F#m6, B13, E9/F9, E9, A13, Ab13 chord sequence. The [[tempo]] is medium fast.

Chick Webb’s recording rose to number ten on the charts in 1934. Two years later the piece charted by [[Ozzie Nelson]] and by Benny Goodman. Since becoming a [[jazz standard]], the song has been recorded hundreds of times, including
by [[Judy Garland]] (1936), [[Charlie Christian]] (1941),<ref>Harrison et al, p. 1.</ref> [[Art Tatum]] (1941), [[Clifford Brown]] and [[Max Roach]] (1954), [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Louis Armstrong]] (1956), [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] (1957),<ref>Harrison et al, p. 160.</ref> [[Ahmad Jamal]] and [[Cal Tjader]] (1958),<ref>Harrison et al, p. 282.</ref> [[Sarah Vaughan]] (1964),<ref name="JazzStandards"/> the [[Boston Pops Orchestra]] (1991, under [[John Williams]]), and [[Nikki Yanofsky]] (with [[Herbie Hancock]] and [[will.i.am]]) (2007).

==Other cover versions==
* [[Karrin Allyson]], ''[[Azure-Té]]'', 1995
* [[Louis Armstrong]] and [[Ella Fitzgerald]], ''[[Ella and Louis Again]]'', 1957<ref name="Gioia" />
* [[Ella Fitzgerald]] live, on her [[Ella at the Opera House]] album
* [[Clifford Brown]] and [[Max Roach]], ''[[Brown and Roach Incorporated]]'', 1954<ref name="Gioia" />
* [[Eddie Daniels]], ''Swing Low Sweet Clarinet'', 1999<ref name="Gioia" />
* [[Glenn Miller]] and the AAFB, [[V-Disc]], 1944
* Esquire All Stars, 1944<ref name="Gioia" />
* [[Benny Goodman]], 1936<ref name="Gioia" />
* [[Henri Salvador]], Salvador plays the blues, 1959
* [[Anita O'Day]], ''[[Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day]]'', 1956
* [[Art Pepper]], ''[[Modern Art (Art Pepper album)|Modern Art]]'', 1956<ref name="Gioia" />
* [[Art Tatum]], ''The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Volume 5'', 1953<ref name="Gioia" />
* [[Chick Webb]], 1934<ref name="Gioia" />
* [[Tony Glausi]], ''My Favorite Tunes'', 2020<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjCR1dc9GmY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/NjCR1dc9GmY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Stompin at the Savoy - Tony Glausi, Lucas Pino, Julius Rodriguez, Dan Chmielinski, Bryan Carter |publisher=YouTube |date=22 March 2019 |access-date=22 August 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[Harry Connick, Jr.]], ''[[When Harry Met Sally...]]'', 1989

==See also==
*[[List of jazz standards (1930s)]]

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|
<ref name="JazzStandards">{{cite web |title=Stompin' at the Savoy |last=Wilson |first=Jeremy |publisher=JazzStandards.com |url=http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/stompinatthesavoy.htm |access-date=2 December 2011}}</ref>
}}

== References ==
* {{cite book |title=The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to Postmodernism |last1=Harrison |first1=Max |last2=Fox |first2=Charles |last3=Thacker |first3=Eric |last4=Nicholson |first4=Stuart |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-7201-1822-3}}

==External links==
*[https://www.jazzguitar.be/blog/stompin-at-the-savoy/ "Stompin' at the Savoy"] Jazz guitar arrangement

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[[Category:1934 songs]]
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[[Category:Songs written by Andy Razaf]]
[[Category:Songs written by Edgar Sampson]]
[[Category:Benny Goodman songs]]
[[Category:Al Hirt songs]]
[[Category:Jazz songs]]
[[Category:Jazz compositions in C major]]

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