From Broadway To 52nd Street

The Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart music written for Jumbo was first heard on November 16, 1935 on the stage of the Hippodrome. Rodgers and Hart wrote three timeless classics that became jazz standards: My Romance, Little Girl Blue and The Most Beautiful Girl In The World. The musical ran for 233 performances and starred Jimmy Durante, Donald Novis, Gloria Grafton and a number of circus specialty acts.

The Story: It’s a Circus tale about two feuding circus magnates, Mulligan & Considine, who are dismayed to learn their children have fallen in love. Considine’s problems compound by his drinking and imminent bankruptcy. His money difficulties are solved when his agent burns down his house allowing him to collect his insurance. When the kids reconcile the fathers, Considine puts the bottle on the shelf.

Jazz History: Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by jazz artists as part of the genre’s musical repertoire. This list includes compositions written in the 1930s that are considered standards by at least one major fake book publication or reference work. Some of the tunes like Summertime, All The things You Are, My Funny Valentine and Body and Soul were already well known standards by the 1940s, while others were popularized later.

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