Ballad Medley (All the Things You Are / Dearly Beloved / The Nearness of You)

~ Recording by Charlie Parker

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
10.3Ballad Medley (All the Things You Are / Dearly Beloved / The Nearness of You)17:26Norman GranzThe Complete Masters 1941–1954Charlie ParkerAlbum + Compilation
  • FR2011-11-21
Universal Music Classics & Jazz France533 612-3, 533 612-4, 533 612-5, 533 612-6, 533 612-7, 533 612-8, 533 612-9, 533 613-0, 533 613-1, 533 613-2, 533 613-3, 533 613-4, 533 613-5, 533 613-6, 533 613-7, 533 613-8, 533 613-9, 533 614-1, 533 614-2, 533 614-3

Relationships

alto saxophone:Benny Carter (in 1952-07)
Johnny Hodges (in 1952-07)
Charlie Parker (aka “Bird”, jazz alto saxophonist) (in 1952-07)
double bass:Ray Brown (jazz bassist) (in 1952-07)
drums (drum set):J.C. Heard (in 1952-07)
guitar:Barney Kessel (in 1952-07)
piano:Oscar Peterson (Canadian jazz pianist and composer) (in 1952-07)
tenor saxophone:Flip Phillips (in 1952-07)
Ben Webster (in 1952-07)
trumpet:Charlie Shavers (in 1952-07)
recording of:All the Things You Are (from “Very Warm for May”) (in 1952-07: cover, partial, instrumental)
Dearly Beloved (from “You Were Never Lovelier”) (in 1952-07: cover, partial, instrumental)
The Nearness of You (in 1952-07: cover, partial, instrumental)

All the Things You Are (from “Very Warm for May”)

lyricist:Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers & Hammerstein) (in 1939)
composer:Jerome Kern (in 1939)
publisher:Polygram Int. Publishing (renamed Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. circa 1998) (ended)
T.B. Harms Inc. (ended)
Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (existed only since ca. 1998)
later translated versions:Pár dnů
part of:Broadway Rhythm (film)
is the basis for:Dixie’s Dilemma
arrangements:All the Things You Are (arr. Zaremba)
All the Things You Are (arr. Taylor)

Dearly Beloved (from “You Were Never Lovelier”)

lyricist:Johnny Mercer
composer:Jerome Kern

The Nearness of You

lyricist:Ned Washington (in 1938)
composer:Hoagy Carmichael (in 1938)
publisher:Famous Chappell
Famous Music Corporation (renamed since 2007‐05 as Sony/ATV Harmony/Melody)
Sony/ATV Harmony
Sony/ATV Harmony UK
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (1995–2020)
arrangements:The Nearness of You (James L. Mack arrangement)