Baby, Won't You Please Come Home (The Mills Brothers)

The Mills Brothers · 1931 · Blues de Clarence Williams repris en quatre voix

Context

Recorded for Brunswick on November 19, 1931. The quartet turns this 1919 blues into a supple vocal piece, with discreet guitar support.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Tiger Rag (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• Nobody's Sweetheart (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• You Rascal, You (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• Rockin' Chair (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• Good-bye Blues (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• St. Louis Blues (The Mills Brothers) (1932)

Sources

• adp.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Mills Brothers discography

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