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Li'l Darlin is a jazz standard, composed and arranged in by Neal Hefti for the Count Basie Orchestra and first recorded on the album.!
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Li'l Darlin'
1957 jazz standard
For the Red Garland album, see Lil' Darlin'.
"Li'l Darlin'" (copyrighted in 1958 as "Lil' Darlin'")[1] is a jazz standard, composed and arranged in 1957 by Neal Hefti for the Count Basie Orchestra[2] and first recorded on the 1958 album, The Atomic Mr.
Basie (Roulette Records).
Style
The composition, in the words of jazz writer, Donald Clarke, is "an object lesson in how to swing at a slow tempo."[3]
Gary Giddins expands on the importance of tempo in the performance of "Li'l Darlin'", saying that "in the enduring 'Li'l Darlin'', [Hefti] tested the band's temporal mastery with a slow and simple theme that dies if it isn't played at exactly the right tempo.
Basie never flinched."[4] Hefti envisioned the piece to be played at a medium swing tempo, not as a ballad.[5]
History
The Jazz Discography (online), as of June 24, 2019, lists 324 recordings of the work.