But Beautiful

Billie Holiday · 1958 · Ballade de Van Heusen avec solo de trompette

Context

Song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke, with a trumpet solo by Mel Davis. Columbia album, recorded February 19, 20, and 21, 1958 at Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York, produced by Irving Townsend.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. 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

• I'm a Fool to Want You (1958)
• You've Changed (1958)
• I'll Be Around (1958)
• Lover Man (1944)
• God Bless the Child (1941)
• All of Me (1941)

Sources

• EN: Lady in Satin

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