Backwater Blues

Dinah Washington · 1958 · Blues le plus long du disque, 5 minutes

Context

Blues by Bessie Smith, longest track on the original album (5:00). Dinah Washington would cover it on stage at Newport in 1958, according to the bonus tracks of the 1999 reissue.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Blues, spirituals, work songs. 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

• After You've Gone (Dinah Washington) (1958)
• Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair (1958)
• Jailhouse Blues (1958)
• Me and My Gin (1958)
• What a Diff'rence a Day Makes (1959)
• This Bitter Earth (1959)

Sources

• EN: Dinah Sings Bessie Smith

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