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
Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra side" of George Gershwin's "An American in Paris". Later in 1977, "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra" was re-released on vinyl by Deutsche Grammophon, on their Polydor Records label, backed by "Street Music: A Blues Concerto". In 2002, "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra" was released on CD, combined with "Street Music" and "An American in Paris". On Classical Music Sentinel in 2011, Jean-Yves Duperron wrote, "This great collaborative recording from the 1970s deserves the term of Definitive Recording simply for being what it is. A very successful coming together of different genres of music that