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SOLO  FLIGHT

THE  CHARLIE  CHRISTIAN  LEGACY

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HARD TIME BLUES
 
mx  26241-A
 
OCTOBER  31,  1939     Tuesday  PM 711 Fifth Avenue,  NYC
  ( VOCALION Records )
 

 
  12-Bar BLUES Key of   A Quarter Note =   86 Time:   2:54
 
 
  2-Bar Intro  +  5  CHORUSES:
 
      2  bars  –  ensemble [Intro]  
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over clt obbl)
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over muted tbn obbl)
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over muted tpt obbl)
 
  12  bars  –  vocal (over CC obbl)  
 
    12  bars  –  vocal (over ens riffs)  
 
 

 
Personnel:
 
  Ida Cox and her All-Star Band
  CHARLIE CHRISTIAN Guitar
  EDMOND HALL clarinet
  HOT LIPS PAGE trumpet
  J.C. HIGGINBOTHAM trombone
  FLETCHER HENDERSON piano
  ARTIE BERNSTEIN bass
  LIONEL HAMPTON drums
  IDA COX vocal
 
 

Composed by: Ida Cox
 
©   VALDÉS   6/20/20
 

 

Transcription

Hard Time Blues   –   31 October 1939   –   mx 26241-A

Obbligati

 



C
&A:

On Hard Time Blues Charlie Christian doesn’t get to do the intro as he did on the previous song (Pink Slip Blues) but he again gets to play the obbligati behind Ida Cox’s fourth verse (again, of five).

Won't somebody please try and find my man for me
Won't you please try and find my man for me
Tell him I'm broke and hungry, lonely as I can be

 


 
Issued Recordings:
 
  [ 78 ] Vocalion 05298 (b/w Four Day Creep)
 
  [ EP ] Fontana TFE 17136 (side A, track 1))
 
  [ LP ] Collector’s Classics CC 56 (side B, track 1)
    Queen-Disc Q-048 (side A, track 5)
 
  [ CD ] Affinity / Charly AFS 1015 (track 6)
  ASV / Living Era AJA 5092 (track 7)
  Charly CD DIG 18 (disc 4, track 6)
  Chestnut CN1003 (track 18)
  Definitive DRCD11176 (disc 1, track 16)
  Document DOCD-5651 (track 10)
 



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