" Freddie Freeloader " is a composition by Miles Davis and is the second track on his 1959 album Kind of Blue. The piece takes the form of a twelve-bar blues in B ♭, but the chord over the final …

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Red Skelton’ s most famous character, Freddie the Freeloader, is a happy hobo clown. Unlike Emmett Kelly ‘s Weary Willy tramp clown, Freddie the Freeloader had a perpetually upbeat …

Freddie the Freeloader was the hobo who lived in the city dump. Freddie would also be seen sleeping on a park bench often being told by a passing by police officer to move along or risk …

The three joined guitarist Wes Montgomery for some of his most up tempo sessions. And just who was “Freddie Freeloader?" Most believe the song gets its name from a hanger-on named …

It's a great chart for teaching the blues, and it has a trumpet soli section that's derived from Miles' original solo! The solo can be performed by one player or as a section feature.

Thematically, “Freddie Freeloader” is something of an orphan in Kind of Blue. In his liner notes for the original release, Bill Evans describes this tune as: a 12-measure blues form given new...