Thanks all for the threads and links to "Caravan"
It was written one year after I was born and for years after hardly a day
went by when I didn't hear it on the radio and be enchanted by it !
I'll wager 90% of the American public was familiar with "Caravan" by
the start of WW 11 as it was in every big bands rep .
I'd also guess that not 1% are today. Progress ?
There is a very smoky jazz club type of it on You Tube by Cassandra Wilson with a quintet . The great percussionist Lelank Babaalula alone is worth watching it for . She's not Ella but a good horse for that course .
It was written one year after I was born and for years after hardly a day
went by when I didn't hear it on the radio and be enchanted by it !
I'll wager 90% of the American public was familiar with "Caravan" by
the start of WW 11 as it was in every big bands rep .
I'd also guess that not 1% are today. Progress ?
There is a very smoky jazz club type of it on You Tube by Cassandra Wilson with a quintet . The great percussionist Lelank Babaalula alone is worth watching it for . She's not Ella but a good horse for that course .