One O'Clock Jump One O'Clock Jump "One O'Clock Jump" is a jazz standard, a 12-bar blues instrumental, written by Count Basie in 1937. The melody derived from band members' riffs--Basie rarely wrote down musical ideas, so Eddie Durham and Buster Smith helped him crystallize his ideas. The original 1937 recording of the tune by Basie and his band is noted for the saxophone work of Herschel Evans and Lester Young, trumpet by Buck Clayton, Walter Page on bass and Basie himself on piano. "One O'Clock Jump" became the theme song of the Count Basie Orchestra. They used it to close each of their
One Jump Ahead (song) and if there is a better future for him. AllMusic wrote "The manic "One Jump" and "Arabian Nights" are cut from the cloth of classic Broadway show tunes". The Star described it as a "clever number about what a good crook Aladdin is", and noted its "revelatory lyrics". "The National Post" said that in the Broadway version, "The movie’s songs — One Jump Ahead, Friend Like Me and, best of all, Diamond in the Rough — come up fresh and sparkling". One Jump Ahead (song) "One Jump Ahead" and its reprise are two songs from the 1992 Disney animated film