Havana Swing - Les Feuilles Mortes (Joseph Kosma) video free download

Havana Swing - Les Feuilles Mortes (Joseph Kosma) played at the 2011 Fife Jazz Festival at the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews.

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"Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves") with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert. Yves Montand (with Irène Joachim) introduced "Les feuilles mortes" in 1946 in the film Les Portes de la Nuit. The American songwriter Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics in 1947 and Jo Stafford was among the first to perform this version. Autumn Leaves became a pop standard and a jazz standard in both languages, both as an instrumental and with a singer.

On December 24, 1950, French singer Edith Piaf rendered both French and English versions of this song on the radio programme The Big Show, hosted by Tallulah Bankhead.

The Melachrino Strings Conductor: George Melachrino recorded a version in London on August 18, 1950. It was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number B 9952.

The film Autumn Leaves (1956) starring Joan Crawford featured the song, as sung by Nat King Cole over the title sequence. The French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg paid tribute to this song in his own song "La chanson de Prévert".

One of the most referred-to instrumental versions of this song is the one on the Cannonball Adderley album called "Somethin' Else" released in 1958, whose personnel included Miles Davis on trumpet, Hank Jones on piano, Sam Jones on bass, and Art Blakey on drums.

In 1974 Chet Baker recorded a version at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey that has an improvisational solo by Chet that has become considered to be one of the best examples of Chet's work. Ironically Chet recorded it in concert F minor and adds a six bar tag of F minor at the end of every chorus.

The song also crossed over in the club scene when dance act Coldcut recorded a version in 1994, the resulting remix by Irresistable Force became widely regarded a classic of the chillout genre.

It is the corps song of the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps

Havana Swing are:

Alain LeGrande (rhythm guitar / vocals)

Ashley Malcolm (lead guitar)

Calum McKenzie (double bass)

John Whyte (lead guitar)

Walt Smith (clarinet)