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"Caravan" is a jazz standard
Jazz standard

A jazz standard is a jazz tune that is held in continuing esteem and which is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians as part of the jazz musical repertoire....
 composed by Juan Tizol
Juan Tizol

Juan Tizol was a Puerto Rico trombone and composer.He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and moved to the mainland United States in 1920. He trained as a valve trombonist and Valide trombone....
 and first performed by Duke Ellington in 1937. Tizol also composed "Perdido" for the Ellington band. The lyrics were written by Irving Mills
Irving Mills

Irving Mills was a jazz Music publisher , also known by the name of Joe Primrose.Mills was born in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919....
, but as many versions are instrumental he is sometimes not listed. The song is variously seen as the first Latin jazz
Latin jazz

Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz and classical harmonies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States....
 song or as a Mideastern influenced jazz song. Its "exotic" sound made it of interest to Exotica
Exotica

Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny Exotica , popular during the 1950s to mid 1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II....
 musicians so it was covered by both Martin Denny
Martin Denny

Martin Denny was an American piano-player and composer best known as the "father of exotica." In a long career that saw him performing well into his 80s, he toured the world popularizing his brand of lounge music which included exotic percussion, imaginative rearrangements of popular songs, and original songs that celebrated Tiki culture....
 and Arthur Lyman
Arthur Lyman

Arthur Lyman was a prolific United States jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His group popularized a style of faux-Polynesian music during the 1950s and 1960s which later became known as exotica....
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"Caravan" is a jazz standard
Jazz standard

A jazz standard is a jazz tune that is held in continuing esteem and which is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians as part of the jazz musical repertoire....
 composed by Juan Tizol
Juan Tizol

Juan Tizol was a Puerto Rico trombone and composer.He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and moved to the mainland United States in 1920. He trained as a valve trombonist and Valide trombone....
 and first performed by Duke Ellington in 1937. Tizol also composed "Perdido" for the Ellington band. The lyrics were written by Irving Mills
Irving Mills

Irving Mills was a jazz Music publisher , also known by the name of Joe Primrose.Mills was born in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919....
, but as many versions are instrumental he is sometimes not listed. The song is variously seen as the first Latin jazz
Latin jazz

Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz and classical harmonies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States....
 song or as a Mideastern influenced jazz song. Its "exotic" sound made it of interest to Exotica
Exotica

Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny Exotica , popular during the 1950s to mid 1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II....
 musicians so it was covered by both Martin Denny
Martin Denny

Martin Denny was an American piano-player and composer best known as the "father of exotica." In a long career that saw him performing well into his 80s, he toured the world popularizing his brand of lounge music which included exotic percussion, imaginative rearrangements of popular songs, and original songs that celebrated Tiki culture....
 and Arthur Lyman
Arthur Lyman

Arthur Lyman was a prolific United States jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His group popularized a style of faux-Polynesian music during the 1950s and 1960s which later became known as exotica....
. It has appeared in two Woody Allen
Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
 films, Alice
Alice (1990 film)

Alice is a 1990 in film film directed by Woody Allen and starring Joe Mantegna, Mia Farrow and Alec Baldwin. The film is a loose reworking of Federico Fellini's 1965 film Juliet of the Spirits...
 and Sweet and Lowdown
Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 in film written and directed by Woody Allen which tells the story of a arrogant, obnoxious, alcoholic jazz guitarist named Emmett Ray who may be the best guitarist in the world....
. Even rap musicians Redman
Redman

Reginald "Reggie" Noble , better known by his stage name Redman, is an United States rapping and actor. He came to fame in the early 1990s as an artist on the Def Jam label....
 and Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes

Trevor Smith, Jr., better known as Busta Rhymes , is a Grammy Award-nominated Jamaican?United States rapping, songwriter, and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes after watching him perform....
 sampled the song heavily in their 1998 song "Da Goodness" (from Redman's album Doc's da Name 2000
Doc's da Name 2000

Doc's Da Name 2000 is Redman 's fourth album. It was a top seller, shipping platinum record in sales and exceeding his previous record of gold record....
).

First version

The first version of the song was recorded on December 19, 1936, performed by Barney Bigard And His Jazzopators in Hollywood. Two takes were recorded, of which the first (Variety VA-515-1) was published.

It is noteworthy that on the Barney Bigard 78 recording, the composer of the song is listed on the record label as "Juan Tizol".

Performers: Cootie Williams (trumpet), Juan Tizol (trombone), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Harry Carney (baritone sax), Duke Ellington (piano), Billy Taylor (bass) and Sonny Greer (drums).

Some noteworthy renditions

As the song became a standard this is just a list of a few examples (listed alphabetically).
  • Chet Atkins
    Chet Atkins

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  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
  • The Carpenters
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  • Chicago
    Chicago (band)

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  • Avishai Cohen
    Avishai Cohen

    Avishai Cohen is an Israeli jazz double bass, composer, singer and arranger....
  • Harry Connick, Jr.
    Harry Connick, Jr.

    Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. is an American Popular Music/Performers, pianist, composer, actor, and humanitarian. Connick?s music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues....
  • Nat King Cole
    Nat King Cole

    Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  • Eddie Condon
    Eddie Condon

    Albert Edwin Condon , better known as Eddie Condon, was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the so-called "Chicago school" of early Dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion....
  • Dick Dale
    Dick Dale

    Dick Dale is a surf rock Electric Guitar, known as "The King Of The Surf Guitar". He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender Musical Instruments Corporation amplifiers, including the first ever 100 watt amp....
  • Bobby Darin
    Bobby Darin

    Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
  • Maynard Ferguson
  • Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  • Les Fradkin
    Les Fradkin

    Les Fradkin is a guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for being a member of the original cast of the hit Broadway show Beatlemania....
     (featuring the futuristic Starr Labs Ztar)
  • Dizzy Gillespie
    Dizzy Gillespie

    John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
  • Jon Hassell
    Jon Hassell

    Jon Hassell is an United States trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound....
  • Hepcat
    Hepcat

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  • Freddie Hubbard
    Freddie Hubbard

    Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an United States jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and on....
  • Dick Hyman
    Dick Hyman

    Dick Hyman is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer best known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a 50 year career he has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as composer....
  • Lambert, Hendricks and Ross (with lyrics by Irving Ross)
  • Herbie Mann
    Herbie Mann

    Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was an United States jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played saxophones and clarinets , but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flautist during the 1960 in m...
  • The Mills Brothers
  • Ralph Marterie, whose 1953 version was a reported million seller
  • Thelonious Monk
    Thelonious Monk

    Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
  • Kye Palmer
    Kye Palmer

    Kye Palmer is a trumpet player who currently performs with the Tonight Show Band.Palmer, a native Californian who holds a bachelor?s degree from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, studied with such legends as trumpet great Bobby Shew and jazz vibraphonist Charlie Shoemaker....
  • Les Paul
    Les Paul

    Les Paul is an American jazz guitarist and inventor. He is a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible." His many recording innovations include overdubbing, Delay such as "sound on sound" and Delay , Phaser , and multitrack recording....
  • Art Pepper
    Art Pepper

    Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an United States alto saxophonist....
  • Oscar Peterson
    Oscar Peterson

    Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
  • Michel Petrucciani
    Michel Petrucciani

    Michel Petrucciani , was a France Jazz pianist.Michel Petrucciani came from an Italo-French family with a musical background. His father Tony played guitar and his brother Louis played bass....
  • Phish
    Phish

    eruses4|the band|deceptive internet practices|Phishing}}Phish is an United States band noted for their musical improvisation, extended jam sessions, exploration of music between genres, and their "fiercely loyal fans." Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the band's four members performed together for over 20 years until their hia...
  • Tito Puente
    Tito Puente

    Tito Puente, Sr., , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr., was an influential Latin jazz and Mambo musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey" of the timbales and "The King of Latin Music"....
  • Jimmy Rosenberg
    Jimmy Rosenberg

    Joseph Rosenberg is a Netherlands musician , known for his virtuoso playing of jazz, string swing, and gypsy jazz.He was formerly active in the gypsy environment , inspired by his relative Stochelo Rosenberg after his release of the album "Seresta" ....
    , then with his group Sinti.
  • Eddie Rosner
    Eddie Rosner

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  • Arturo Sandoval
    Arturo Sandoval

    Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in Havana Province, Cuba.Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz legends Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Dizzy later in 1977....
  • Brian Setzer Orchestra
  • The Skatalites
    The Skatalites

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  • The Stimulators
    The Stimulators

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  • Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
    Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

    Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra , commonly abbreviated by fans as "Skapara", is a Japanese Ska and Jazz band formed in 1985 by the percussionist Asa-Chang....
  • Eddie Torres
    Eddie Torres

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     & His Mambo Kings Orchestra
  • Hiromi Uehara
  • The Ventures
    The Ventures

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  • The New York Voices
  • La Souris Déglinguée
  • Nicola Conte
    Nicola Conte

    Nicola Conte is an Italy Disc jockey, Record producer and guitar player known for introducing an innovative style of acid jazz that incorporates bossa nova themes, melodies drawn from Italian film scores of the 1960s, easy listening themes, and ethnic India music....
  • George Shearing
    George Shearing

    Sir George Shearing Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom jazz pianist who, during the 1950s, had a popular Jazz group for MGM Records and Capitol Records....
  • Gary Primich, the best harmonica version of the classic.


Appearances in film, television, or musicals

  • Alice
    Alice (1990 film)

    Alice is a 1990 in film film directed by Woody Allen and starring Joe Mantegna, Mia Farrow and Alec Baldwin. The film is a loose reworking of Federico Fellini's 1965 film Juliet of the Spirits...
  • Chocolat
    Chocolat (film)

    Chocolat is a 2000 in film film based on the novel Chocolat by Joanne Harris, directed by Lasse Hallstr?m. Adapted by screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat tells the story of a young mother, played by Juliette Binoche, who arrives at the fictional, repressed France village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter...
  • Funny Bones
    Funny Bones

    Funny Bones is a 1995 in film comedy-drama from Hollywood Pictures. It was written, directed and produced by Peter Chelsom, co-produced by Simon Fields, and co-written by Peter Flannery....
     (performed by Duke Ellington)
  • "The Homecoming
    The Homecoming (The O.C. episode)

    "The Homecoming" is the 11th episode of the Fox Broadcasting Company television series, The O.C.. The episode was written by Josh Schwartz and Brian Oh and was directed by Keith Samples....
    ", an episode of The O.C.
    The O.C.

    The O.C. is an United States teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons....
  • "Jazzy and the Pussycats
    Jazzy and the Pussycats

    "Jazzy and the Pussycats" is the second episode of The Simpsons The Simpsons and first aired September 17, 2006. When Bart turns a quiet funeral into a chaotic mess, Homer and Marge are faced with angry Springfielders who've had enough of Bart's mischievousness....
    ", an episode of The Simpsons
    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
  • Ocean's Eleven
    Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)

    Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 in film remake of the 1960 Rat Pack heist film Ocean's Eleven . The 2001 film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features an ensemble cast....
  • Ocean's Thirteen
    Ocean's Thirteen

    Ocean's Thirteen is a 2007 in film heist film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring an ensemble cast. It is the third in the Soderbergh series following the 2004 sequel Ocean's Twelve and the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven , which itself was a remake of the 1960 in film Rat Pack film Ocean's Eleven ....
  • Mad Men
    Mad Men

    Mad Men is an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by Matthew Weiner. It is broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC , and is produced by Lionsgate Television....
    s pilot episode
  • The Thirteenth Floor
    The Thirteenth Floor

    The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 film directed by Josef Rusnak, produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Dennis Haysbert....
  • Swing!
    Swing!

    Swing! is a musical theatre conceived by Paul Kelly with music by various artists. It celebrates the music of the Swing era of jazz , including many well-known tunes by artists like Duke Ellington, William "Count" Basie, Benny Goodman and others....
     featured a faster and more upbeat western version of this song, and without lyrics.


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