Lester Young I've Found a New Baby Year

I've Found a New Infant (1926)

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Origin and Chart Information

"The session's results are electrifying ... and Christian's solo blisters with his genius."

- Chris Tyle

On Jan 22, 1926, Clarence Williams' Blue Five introduced "I've Plant a New Baby." Eight years later, in 1934, a Mills Brothers recording of the song rose to number nineteen on the popular charts. The song was on the charts again in 1939 equally the Harry James Orchestra rendition rose to number fourteen.

Williams and Spencer Williams (no relation) wrote numerous songs together, their best known of which is 1919's "Royal Garden Blues."

"I've Found a New Infant" is included in the repertoire of almost every traditional jazz ring. It is attractive as an improvisational vehicle, allowing not just the individual musician creative vistas but the group aplenty opportunity to share solos. The lyrics speak of a happy fellow who has fallen hard for a pretty girl. The jargon is definitely the patter of the 1920's, "Tells me lies, but she'south wise, naughty eyes, mesmerize I vow, and how, I don't mean perchance!"

More than information on this tune...

Henry Martin
Enjoying Jazz
Schirmer Books
Paperback: 302 pages

(Martin devotes three pages to "I've Found a New Baby," including an analysis of the musical content, a list of performers, and a jazz solo transcription.)

See the Reading and Research folio for this tune for additional references.

- Jeremy Wilson

This section suggests definitive or otherwise significant recordings that volition assistance jazz students become acquainted with "I've Found a New Infant." These recordings take been selected from the Jazz History and CD Recommendations sections.


Benny Goodman'southward version of "I've Found a New Baby" (The Genius of the Electric Guitar) is the definitive recording of the tune. The whole band sounds smashing, but the star is guitarist Charlie Christian, who takes one of his most influential and brilliant solos on this melody. Like Christian, Lester Young and Nat "King" Cole both had potent pedigrees in swing but forward-thinking approaches and technical prowess that helped to foreshadow the bebop movement. Their rollicking version of "I've Constitute a New Baby" (Accept Me to the Land of Jazz), accompanied by drummer Buddy Rich, is another performance well worth hearing.

Noah Baerman - Jazz Pianist and Educator

Music and Lyrics Analysis

Musical assay of "I've Plant a New Infant"

Original Key D pocket-sized, moving to relative major of F; temporary false key change to "C" major in second half of "B"
Form A – A – B – A
Tonality Primarily modest, ending in major
Movement "A" is a downward arpeggiated figure, embellished with chromatic lower neighbors and a passing tone. "B" consists of two downward-moving calibration patterns that contain lower neighbor embellishing tones.

Comments     (assumed background)

A fairly repetitive song with a elementary chord progression that originally served as the vehicle for novelty lyrics. The "A" harmonic progression is i – V7 – i (with a passing bVI7 chord that serves as a secondary dominant in the function of N6/5). "B" starts on V7 going to i, then repeats this a step lower diatonically, making the sequence V7 – I in the new temporary key earlier a V7/i modulation back to the original fundamental–all very unequivocal with few surprises.
K. J. McElrath - Musicologist for JazzStandards.com

Brilliant electric guitarist Charlie Christian was hired past Benny Goodman in 1939 to exist function of his smaller "band-within-a-band" which had, by 1940, expanded from a trio to a sextet. Goodman's 1940 recording of "I've Constitute a New Baby" includes ex-Duke Ellington trumpeter Cootie Williams (who had recently joined Goodman) and guests, pianist Count Basie and his drummer, Jo Jones.

The session's results are electrifying. The rhythm section of Jones, Basie and bassist Artie Bernstein light a fire under the other band members, and Christian's solo blisters with his genius. Although his career was brief (he died in 1942 from tuberculosis), Christian'due south influence on jazz guitarists continues to this twenty-four hours.

Chris Tyle - Jazz Musician and Historian

Additional information for "I've Found a New Baby" may be establish in:

Henry Martin
Enjoying Jazz
Schirmer Books
Paperback: 302 pages

(3 pages including the following types of information: music analysis, performers and jazz solo transcription.)

"I've Found a New Baby" was included in these films:


  • Sweet and Low Downward (1944, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra)
  • New York Stories (1989, Wilbur de Paris and His New Orleans Jazzband)
  • Mighty Aphrodite (1995, Wilbur de Paris and His New Orleans Jazzband)

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Recommendations for This Tune

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Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grapelli
La Quintet Du Hot Club De French republic
Music
Not simply is this an entertaining recording of some superb gypsy swing but an important one besides, as the listener is treated to the intuitive interplay of 2 masters in their heyday.

Lester Young
The Lester Young Trio
Polygram Records 21650
Original recording 1946
This album actually has two versions of "I've Found a New Infant." Saxophonist Immature is featured in a trio with pianist Nat "King" Cole and drummer Buddy Rich in a stunning, rollicking performance. Young, meanwhile, doesn't fifty-fifty announced on the other performance, a quintet track featuring Cole over again, this time with a frontline of trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and a immature Dexter Gordon tenor saxophone.
Roy Eldridge/Dizzy Gillespie
Roy and Diz
1994 Verve 314521647
Original recording 1954
Trumpet fable Eldridge and his disciple Gillespie engage in some friendly competition on this swinging number, ably prodded by Oscar Peterson and his quartet.
Squirrel Nut Zippers
The Inevitable
1995 Mammoth Records 980105
A rousing rendition from the new breed of swing ring. The Squirrel Nut Zippers show that the energy of the vocal really is timeless.
Matt Wilson
Smile
1999, Palmetto
Eclectic drummer Matt Wilson charms the listener with a challenging version of the song.

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