Jazz Guitar Lesson: Exploring a Barney Kessel Intro "Back Home Again In Indiana"

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A look at Barney Kessel's intro on "Back Home In Indiana" from the 1954 Album, Lester Young with The Oscar Peterson Trio.

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from Wikipedia:
"(Back Home Again in) Indiana" is a song composed by James F. Hanley with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald that was published in January 1917. Although it is not the state song of Indiana (which is "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"), it is perhaps the best-known song that pays tribute to the Hoosier state.
Back Home Again in Indiana, James F. Hanley and Ballard MacDonald, 1917, Paull-Pioneer Music Corp.
The tune was introduced as a Tin Pan Alley pop song of the time. It contains a musical quotation from the already well known "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away", as well as repetition of words from the lyrics: candlelight, moonlight, fields, new-mown hay, sycamores, and the Wabash River.

A jazz standard

Columbia 78 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 1917
In 1917 it was one of the current pop tunes selected by Columbia Records to be recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, (ODJB), who released it as a 78 with "Darktown Strutters' Ball". This lively instrumental version by the ODJB was one of the earliest jazz records issued and sold well. The tune became a jazz standard. For years, Louis Armstrong and his All Stars would open every public performance with the number.

Its chord changes undergird the Charlie Parker composition "Donna Lee", one of jazz's best known contrafacts, a composition that lays a new melody over an existing harmonic structure. Lesser known contrafacts of Indiana include Fats Navarro's "Ice Freezes Red"[3] and Lennie Tristano's "Ju-Ju".[4]

In 1934, Joe Young, Jean Schwartz, and Joe Ager wrote "In a Little Red Barn (On a Farm Down in Indiana)", which not only incorporated all the same key words and phrases above, but whose chorus had the same harmonic structure as "Indiana". In this respect it was a contrafact of the latter.

Cover versions
Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 1917[7]
Eddie Condon with Frank Teschemacher and Gene Krupa, 1928[7]
Red Nichols, 1929[7]
Casa Loma Orchestra, 1932[7]
Chu Berry with Hot Lips Page, 1937[7]
Lester Young with Nat King Cole, 1942[7]
Lester Young with Count Basie, 1944[7]
Don Byas with Slam Stewart, 1945[8]
Bud Powell, 1947[7]
Louis Armstrong, An Evening with Louis Armstrong at Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 1951[7]
Richard "Groove" Holmes, On Basie's Bandstand, 1966[7]
Joe Venuti and Zoot Sims, Joe and Zoot, 1973[7]
Bonnie Koloc, Wild and Recluse, 1978
Dick Wellstood with Kenny Davern, The Blue Three at Hanratty's, 1981[7]
Straight No Chaser, The New Old Fashioned, 2015
Usage in movies
Remember the Night, 1940: One of the main themes of the movie.
The Monte Carlo Story, 1956: Marlene Dietrich sings the song for Arthur O'Connell.
The Five Pennies, 1959: The song is featured in several scenes as Danny Kaye portrays the life of trumpeter Red Nichols
See also
List of pre-1920 jazz standards
References
Olson, Jeff (25 May 2014). "Jim Nabors performs at Indianapolis 500 one last time". USA TODAY. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
Coggan, Devan (24 May 2015). "Watch Straight No Chaser step into Jim Nabors' shoes, sing to kick off the Indy 500". EW.com. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
Navarro, Fats. "Ice Freezes Red" Archived 2013-12-24 at the Wayback Machine transcribed by Peter Kenagy. Page 12. 2012. Accessed December 22, 2013.
Friedenn, Marv. Sermon on the Flats: The Egalitarian Alternative to Fortune Worship. "Sermon on the Flats" Los Angeles, California, psst Press. Page 108. 2006.
Hanley, James F., MacDonald, Ballard. "Indiana", Indiana State University, Cunningham Memorial Library, Kirk Collection, Terre Haute, 2010. Retrieved on 21 December 2013.
Hanley, James F., MacDonald, Ballard. "Indiana", OC Public Libraries Historical Sheet Music, Cypress, California. Retrieved on 21 December 2013.
Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 200–201. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
"Don Byas, Slam Stewart June 9, 1945". Discography J-Disc. Columbia University in the City of New York. Retrieved 2019-11-08.

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