Big Yellow Taxi (Sarah McKenzie)
Context
Cover of the Joni Mitchell song on Close Your Eyes, where Sarah McKenzie mixes jazz standards, soul and pop. It is one of the longest tracks on the album, at nearly seven minutes.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).