Nica's Dream
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"Nica's Dream" is a jazz standard[1] composed by Horace Silver, named for Pannonica de Koenigswarter.[2] The song has been recorded by The Jazz Messengers as well as many other artists.
Thomas Owens describes the composition – "The trumpet melody, one of the great themes in jazz literature, is a 64-measure song in aaba form. The accompaniment for the a sections is in a Latin style based on [...] one of Silver's favorite patterns. In the bridge the accompaniment alternates between backbeat chordal punctuations and four-beat swing. During the solos the rhythm section maintains the same accompanimental textures, which both clarify the form and maintain the theme's original moods and textures."[3]
