Tar Paper Stomp

Wingy Manone · 1929 · Dated 1929 according to the biography, 1930 according to the list of compositions; basis for In the Mood.

Context

Composition by Wingy Manone, a New Orleans trumpeter, cut on August 28, 1930, in Richmond (Indiana) and released by Champion under the name Barbecue Joe and his Hot Dogs. Its riff of offbeat arpeggios reappears in Horace Henderson's Hot and Anxious (1931) and then in Joe Garland's In the Mood, a Glenn Miller hit in 1939; Manone protested in Down Beat, but an unregistered tune was not protected.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Dixieland (ODJB, 1917). Among the origins and influences of Dixieland: New Orleans jazz.

By the same artist

• The Isle of Capri (1934)

Sources

• EN: Tar Paper Stomp

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