Category: John Clayton

Cotton Tail

Benny Green, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, Ray Brown |

Cotton Tail Benny Green, Ray Brown and the WDR Big Band Cologne, Germany, 1994 Composed in 1940 by Duke Ellington, “Cotton Tail” gets rhythm from “I Got Rhythm,” by George Gershwin. Benny Green, formerly of Art Blakey and the...

Fly Me To the Moon

Diana Krall, John Clayton |

Fly Me To the Moon Diana Krall From a modern jazz best-seller With an original title of “In Other Words” and written by Bart Howard in 1954, “Fly Me to the Moon” has since become a jazz standard. By the time Sinatra recorded...

Satin Doll

Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, Monty Alexander |

Satin Doll Monty Alexander Montreax Jazz Festival, 1976 Written by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington in 1953, “Satin Doll” has received myriad subsequent covers, including by Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson and Frank Sinatra....