Black Trombone
Context
Second track of the album Serge Gainsbourg N° 4, released on Philips on May 23, 1962, Black Trombone is written and composed by Gainsbourg and arranged by Alain Goraguer, who conducts the orchestra and plays piano. The record, made at Studio Blanqui in Paris in March and April 1962, closes the author's first chanson-jazz period. The trombone that gives the song its title is not credited in the sources consulted.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to French jazz, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of French jazz: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Traditional revival, Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz, Jazz in France (interwar years), Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East.