Climbing Higher Mountains
Context
Song by Aretha Franklin, last track of the 1987 live album with the Count Basie orchestra. Diane Schuur is credited on vocals and piano on the album, accompanied by the big band.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Modern big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).