Blue and Sentimental (Ike Quebec)
Context
Cover of the standard by Count Basie, Mack David and Jerry Livingston, title track of a quartet album with Grant Green on guitar. The page quotes Steve Huey's (AllMusic) phrase: “a quiet, underrated masterpiece.”
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).