Our Delight

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| name = Our Delight

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| artist = Dizzy Gillespie

| album = Our Delight

| released = 1946

| recorded = July 9, 1946

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| length = 2:27

| label = Musicraft

| composer = Tadd Dameron

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"Our Delight" is a 1946 jazz standard, composed by Tadd Dameron.{{cite book|last=Randel|first=Don Michael|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA194|access-date=2 February 2012|year=1996|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|page=194}} It is considered one of his best compositions along with "Good Bait", "Hot House", "If You Could See Me Now", and "Lady Bird".{{cite book|last=Gioia|first=Ted|title=The History of Jazz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9G50L3c14QC&pg=PT214|access-date=2 February 2012|date=9 May 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-539970-7|page=214}}{{cite book|last=Yanow|first=Scott|title=Jazz: a regional exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WL3uW3zmO4YC&pg=PA133|access-date=2 February 2012|year=2005|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32871-8|page=133}} It has an AABA construction.{{cite book |last=Owens |first=Thomas |title=Bebop: The Music and Its Players |year=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-510651-0 |page=218 }} A moderately fast bebop song, it featured the trumpeter Fats Navarro, who is said to "exhibit mastery of the difficult chord progression".{{cite book|last1=Carnes|first1=Mark Christopher|last2=Betz|first2=Paul R.|title=American National Biography: Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C&pg=PA242|access-date=2 February 2012|date=12 May 2005|publisher=American Council of Learned Societies, Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-522202-9|page=242}} One author said, "'Our Delight' is a genuine song, a bubbly, jaggedly ascending theme that sticks in one's mind, enriched by harmonic interplay between a flaming trumpet section led by Dizzy, creamy moaning reeds and crooning trombones. The written accompaniments to the solos-in particular the leader's two statements-are full of inventiveness, creating call-and-response patterns and counter-melodies. What is boppish here is the off-center, syncopated melody, as well as the shifting, internal voicings of the chords, especially at the very end. These voicings, along with a love of tuneful melodies that one walks out of a jazz club humming, were Tadd's main legacy to such composers and arrangers as Benny Golson, Gigi Gryce, and Jimmy Heath."{{cite book|last=Rosenthal|first=David H.|title=Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SUzSZIy53XQC&pg=PT31|access-date=2 February 2012|date=9 September 1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-508556-3|page=31}} Rolling Stone describes it as a "bop gem". The first publication is by Dizzy Gillespie in August 1946. In total there are more than 120 covers of Our Delight.[https://cover.info/en/song/Dizzy-Gillespie-and-his-Orchestra-Our-Delight cover.info database] accessed November 6, 2022 Bill Evans recorded his version of it for his debut album New Jazz Conceptions in 1956.{{cite book|last=Swenson|first=John|title=Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-0ZAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2 February 2012|date=27 April 1999|publisher=Random House|page=231|isbn=978-0-679-76873-9}}