Cascades

Oliver Nelson · 1961 · Forme en 56 mesures, blues mineur en section A

Context

Third track of the album (5 min 32 s). The AABA form is altered by replacing the A section with a 16-bar minor blues, for 56 bars in total. Freddie Hubbard and Bill Evans solo on it.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Stolen Moments (1961)
• Hoe-Down (1961)
• Teenie's Blues (1961)
• Let the Word Go Forth (1967)

Sources

• EN: The Blues and the Abstract Truth

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