April in Paris (Sarah Vaughan)
Context
One of the longest tracks on the album (6:26), with Clifford Brown's trumpet. Recorded December 18, 1954, at Fine Sound Studios in New York, released on EmArcy in 1955 (producer Bob Shad). Version distinct from the one by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, already in the catalog.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).