Whisper Not (song)

"Whisper Not" is a composition by Benny Golson. It is in a minor key and contains a shout chorus (a special chorus between the final solo and the closing head). Golson's account of writing the piece is that "I wrote it in Boston at George Wein's Storyville club when I was with Dizzy Gillespie's big band. I wrote that tune in 20 minutes." Some sources indicate that the first recording was by Gillespie, while others indicate that trumpeter Lee Morgan was first.

It quickly became popular with other musicians: Thad Jones and Morgan recorded their own versions before its composer had the chance to record it with his own group. Golson's early version was on his 1957 album Benny Golson's New York Scene. By 1960, John S. Wilson, critic at the New York Times, had labelled the song, together with another Golson composition, "I Remember Clifford", "an established part of the jazz repertory". It has been recorded by hundreds of musicians, becoming a jazz standard.Leonard Feather added lyrics, which were recorded by Anita O'Day in 1962 and later by several other prominent vocalists.

Whisper Not

Whisper Not is a 1967 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with the Marty Paich Orchestra. She had previously recorded with Marty Paich and his more familiar Dek-tette on the 1957 album Ella Swings Lightly.

Whisper Not is Ella's penultimate recording for the Verve label. Her 11 years on the Verve label had seen her make her most acclaimed recordings, critically and commercially. The jazz critic Will Friedwald described her pre-Verve work on Decca as "seeming a mere prelude", and her "post-Verve years as an afterthought".

Track listing

For the 1967 Verve LP release; Verve V6-4071; Re-issued in 2002 on CD, Verve 314 589 478-2

Personnel

Recorded July 20, 1966 at United Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

Tracks 3-6

Others Unknown.

Tracks 1-2, 7-12

Whisper Not (Keith Jarrett album)

Whisper Not is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett's "Standards Trio" featuring Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette recorded in concert in July 1999 at the Palais Des Congrès in Paris, France and released on the ECM label in 2000.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars and states "even those who think they have enough material by this group will be rightly tempted to invest in this document of Jarrett's resurrection".

Track listing