Groovin' High
| "Groovin' High" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Dizzy Gillespie | |
| from the album Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Stars | |
| Released | March 1947 |
| Recorded | February 9, 1945 |
| Genre | |
| Length | 2:38 |
| Label | Musicraft |
| Songwriter | Dizzy Gillespie |
"Groovin' High" is a 1945 jazz song by trumpeter and composer Dizzy Gillespie. The song was a bebop mainstay that became a jazz standard, one of Gillespie's best known hits, and according to Bebop: The Music and Its Players author Thomas Owens, it was "the first famous bebop recording".
It is a complex musical arrangement based on the chord structure of a 1920 standard originally recorded by Paul Whiteman, "Whispering", composed by Vincent Rose with lyrics by John Schonberger and Richard Coburn. The biography Dizzy characterizes the song as "a pleasant medium-tempo tune" that "demonstrates ... [Gillespie's] skill in fashioning interesting textures using only six instruments".
It has been used to title many compilation albums and also the 2001 biography Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie.