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GONE WITH WHAT DRAFT
 
Aircheck
 
FEBRUARY  16,  1941     Sunday “FITCH BANDWAGON”
NBC Radio Network,  NYC
 

 
  32  BARS    (AABA) Key of   F Quarter Note =   224 Time:   2:34
  w/  12  BAR  CADENZA
 
 
  4-Bar Intro  +  2  CHORUSES  +  12-Bar  CADENZA  +  2  CHORUSES:
 
    4  bars  –  CC (Intro)  
 
  16  bars  –  trumpet (Theme) (over CC & ens riffs)
      8  bars  –  trumpet (Theme)  
    8  bars  –  trumpet (Theme) (over CC & ens riffs)
 
  16  bars  –  clarinet   (over CC & ens riffs)
      8  bars  –  clarinet    
    8  bars  –  clarinet   (over CC & ens riffs)
 
    12-BAR CADENZA
      2  bars  –  ensemble    
    2  bars  –  CC (chords  –  unaccompanied)
      2  bars  –  ensemble    
    2  bars  –  CC (chords  –  unaccompanied)
    4  bars  –  CC (chords  –  over ensemble)
 
  16  bars  –  CC & ensemble (fours:  scales / riffs / scales / riffs)
      8  bars  –  trumpet
    8  bars  –  CC & ensemble (fours:  scales / riffs)
 
  16  bars  –  CC & ensemble (riffs)
    8  bars  –  CC & ensemble (four-note arpeggios)
    8  bars  –  CC & ensemble (riffs)
 
 

 
Personnel:
 
  Benny Goodman and his Sextet
  CHARLIE CHRISTIAN Guitar
  GEORGIE AULD tenor sax
  BENNY GOODMAN clarinet
  COOTIE WILLIAMS trumpet
  BILL ROWLAND piano
  ARTIE BERNSTEIN bass
  DAVE TOUGH drums
 
 

Composed by: Charlie Christian - Benny Goodman
  The four 32-bar choruses are based on Honeysuckle Rose chord changes.
  The cadenza is a direct adaptation of Eddie Durham’s 12-bar intro to Avalon (recorded for Decca on 30 Sep 1935 with Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch)
 
©   VALDÉS   3/20/20

 

Transcription

Gone With What Draft   –   16 February 1941

“Fitch Bandwagon”
 

 



C&A:

Count Basie is elsewhere occupied with his own band during this broadcast date so Bill Rowland gets the piano chair and the penultimate-bridge solo goes to Cootie. And the adept Dave Tough has now joined the band on drums.
 

Claude Carrière
            in “Charlie Christian Volume 7 1941” Masters of Jazz MJCD 74:

… a frequently performed piece, Charlie is content to play his habitual role, contributing an introduction and two breaks (the latter borrowed from Eddie Durham – cf. notes to Volume 6).


The following week, the sextet would record Gone with What Draft for the final time, on a broadcast from the “What’s New?–The Old Gold Show” radio program.

 


 
Issued Recordings:
 
  The complete recording has never been commercially released.
 
 
  Incomplete:
  All releases are missing the first 2 bars of CC’s Intro.
 
  [ CD ] Definitive DRCD11177 (disc 3, track 13)
  JSP Records JSP909 (disc 3, track 13)
  Masters of Jazz MJCD 74 (track 2)
 

 



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