Flying Home
Context
Theme written by Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton, which Goodman's sextet recorded on November 6, 1939, with Hampton and Charlie Christian. Hampton made it his signature track with his orchestra in 1942, a version marked by the long tenor solo of Illinois Jacquet, then nineteen years old. It entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Swing, big bands, Jump blues, R&B. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.