Ill Wind

"Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)" is a jazz song written for Arlen and Koehler's last show at the Cotton Club Parade, in 1934. Performed by some of the top names in Jazz over the decades since, it has become a jazz standard.

Composers
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 * Composer
 * Lyricist
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 * Harold Arlen
 * Ted Koehler
 * Harold Arlen
 * Ted Koehler
 * Ted Koehler

Background
The melody came to Arlen whilst he was visiting Anya Taranda, a model who was to become his wife.

Recordings

 * Horace Silver - "Further Explorations" (1958)
 * Stan Kenton - "Standards In Silhouette" (1959)
 * Ella Fitzgerald - Ella at the Opera House (1958), Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (1961)
 * Howard McGhee = "Sharp Edge" (1961)
 * Earl Grant - Midnight Sun (1962)
 * Lena Horne - This Is Lena Horne (1952)
 * Lee Morgan - Cornbread (album) (1967)
 * Larry Coryell/Emily Remler - Together (1985)
 * Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours (1955)
 * Audra McDonald - Happy Songs (2002)
 * Debbie Harry (in a medley with "Stormy Weather") - Hal Willner's Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen (2003)

Arranger
Howard McGhee

Recording Notes
"Sharp Edge" first appeared as part of the album Sharp Edge on the Black Lion label in 1961.

McGhee was in the midst of rebounding from drug addiction at the time of this 1961 session, as he had recorded and played only sporadically over the previous five years.

The band that he assembled for this recording includes bassist George Tucker, drummer Jimmy Cobb, pianist Junior Mance, and on six of the tracks, tenor saxophonist George Coleman

McGhee's emotional muted trumpet introduces the standard “Ill Wind” over Mance’s soft, hypnotic backing, with the mood changing as Coleman makes his bluesy entrance.

Performers
Bass – George Tucker

Drums – Jimmy Cobb

Piano – Junior Mance

Saxophone [Tenor] – George Coleman

Trumpet – Howard McGhee

Producers
Producer – Chris Albertson