Name that jazz tune

May 28, 2005 10:52 AM

JazzFilter : help me name that song, which I can only reproduce the first few notes.

A couple of friends tend to play this song pretty often, the girl doing the chords and the boy the lead notes. I'd like to be able to play it with them by surprise, but I can't find the name (and can't ask, since it's a surprise).
I give you a mp3 of me playing the first few bars. Help me name it please! Bonus karma for a link to tabs for both guitar parts.

posted by XiBe to media & arts (7 comments total)

I think it is called Shine and the version I know of is on the Sweet and Lowdown soundtrack, by the Dick Hyman Group. Great album and a great movie, Sean Penn as the world's second greatest jazz guitrist right behind Django Reihnart.
posted by fixedgear at 11:08 AM on May 28, 2005

Sounds pretty much like Shine. You'll also find it on Ry Cooder's 'Jazz' with the spoken intro that explains the song.
posted by TimothyMason at 11:18 AM on May 28, 2005

May also be "I'll See You In My Dreams."
posted by sourwookie at 11:20 AM on May 28, 2005

The song fixedgear referenced is actually called "I'll See You in My Dreams" (track 1 on the Sweet and Lowdown soundtrack); "Shine" (track 13) doesn't sound much like it at all. brief samples available at Amazon.com.
posted by Tuwa at 12:39 PM on May 28, 2005

Ooops, Tuwa is correct. Right church, wrong pew.
posted by fixedgear at 1:17 PM on May 28, 2005

I perform this stuff for a living. I'm fairly certain I'm right. ;)
posted by sourwookie at 1:20 PM on May 28, 2005

Thank you everyone, "I'll see you in my dreams" is the one.
Apparently also the name of a portugese horror flick ;)

I didn't enjoy Sweet and Lowdown as much as other Allen movies, but I'll try and get my hands on the soundtrack.

Thank you again!

Now, to find the tabs... and get to work :)
posted by XiBe at 1:53 PM on May 28, 2005