"Candlelights" is a 1930 jazz composition for solo piano by cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. It was the second in the series of four piano works which Bix Beiderbecke composed during his career. [1]
"Candlelights" is a 1930 jazz composition for solo piano by cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. It was the second in the series of four piano works which Bix Beiderbecke composed during his career. [1]
Bix Beiderbecke never recorded "Candlelights" but did copyright the piano score on August 29, 1930 as "A Modern Composition for the Piano". [2] Bill Challis assisted with the transcription for piano. The score and the sheet music were published by Robbins Music in New York. "Candlelights" was recorded by jazz pianist Jess Stacy and was released as a 78 single in 1939 on Commodore Records as part of the Classics in Swing series, 517A. [3] Jazz trumpeter Bunny Berigan subsequently recorded it in 1939 in an orchestral arrangement featuring trumpet. [4] More recently, it was recorded by two other jazz pianists: Kenny Werner recorded it in 1977 on Atlantic Records and pianist Bryan Wright recorded it in 2010. Jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli also recorded a guitar transcription of it in 1986 on his album Solo Flight. In 2020, Juliet Kurtzman and Pete Malinverni recorded it as a duo for violin and piano on the album Candlelight: Love in the Time of Cholera.
"Candlelights" has been recorded by Jess Stacy, [5] Bunny Berigan, Bryan Wright, Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble, Paul Mertz, Ralph Sutton, Oscar Pettiford with Tom Talbert, Tiger Dixie Band, Dick Hyman, Mike Polad, Joseph Smith, Bucky Pizzarelli, Patrick Artero, and Kenny Werner.
The composition appears on the following albums:
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