Sister Sadie

{{Short description|Jazz Standard written by Horace Silver}}

{{Other uses|Sister Sadie (band)}}

"Sister Sadie" is a jazz standard[http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/sistersadie.htm] JazzStandards.com. Retrieved 9 August 2013. written in 1959 by Horace Silver, and first recorded for his 1959 Blue Note Records album Blowin' the Blues Away. In 1961, Silver commented on Hank Crawford's version presented on the album More Soul: "They did this a little faster than I intended, but then that's their interpretation – the way they hear it [...] it's more of a blues-band-type interpretation".{{cite magazine |last=Feather |first=Leonard |date=September 28, 1961 |title=The Blindfold Test: Horace Silver |magazine=DownBeat |volume=28 |issue=20 |page=45 }} Silver reported that: "I didn't know a girl named Sadie. I just wrote it, and that title came to mind."{{cite journal| last=Koransky| first=Jason | title=The Songs Are My Life| journal=DownBeat | volume=71| issue=3| page=36| date=March 2004}}