| | Undoubtedly it’s tenor saxophonist John Coltrane’s recording that is to great extent responsible for the composition’s standard status. | | - Chris Tyle |
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| | Bronislau Kaper composed the score for the film A Life of Her Own, starring Lana Turner as a model who’s having an affair with a married man played by Ray Milland. Kaper’s film score was nominated for a Golden Globe award, but the picture did not do well at the box office. However, the lush and haunting score was so appealing that it was used for a second film in , Invitation, starring Dorothy Maguire and Van Johnson. Paul Francis Webster wrote the lyric for Kaper’s main theme, called simply “Invitation.” So although Kaper wrote the melody in , the song’s date is usually given as | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | Webster had collaborated with Duke Ellington on ’s “I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good” and won two Academy Awards with Sammy Fain for  • Cal TjaderSal Cracchiolo Sal Cracchiolo learned how to play the trumpet on his mother’s horn. As his love of the instrument grew she saw to it that Sal received classical trumpet lessons with some of the top teac James “Red” Holloway James “Red” Holloway was an accomplished jazz saxophone player who began his love affair with music while a student of Captain Walter Dyette at DuSable High School in Chicago back in Luis Miranda Luis Miranda often visited the Palladium Theater as a teenager to dance. During one visit, Luis was asked bygd a member of the grupp if he played the congas since their conga player was out Al Torre Al Torre feels music was more than part of his life, it was the driving force behind it, like love and passion. He played drums at an early age and was a key part of the careers of jazz Eugene Wright Eugene Wright can be heard playing bass on the classic jazz song “Take Five” as a member of t • Invitation (song) song by Bronisław Kaper "Invitation" is a song by Bronisław Kaper with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, which originally appeared in the film A Life of Her Own (). Although it was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Score in the original film, it only became a jazz standard after being used as the theme in the film Invitation.[1] Tony Thomas notes that it was selected for the film for its degree of poignance.[2] It is considered to be Kaper's second best known song after "On Green Dolphin Street".[3] describes it as a "lush and haunting score" and notes that it is most associated with John Coltrane, who recorded it in [1] Howard Morgen, who arranged it for guitar, writes that the "haunting" tune has "long been recognized by jazz players for its potential as an interesting mood piece" and "still sounds fresh and contemporary today."[4] George Shearing arranged the song for piano, while Frank Mantoo
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