Blues in the Dark
Context
Robert Altman's film Kansas City yielded a Verve record released in May 1996 on which young saxophonists replay the jazz of the 1930s. "Blues in the Dark" opens the record with James Carter and Joshua Redman.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.