Close Your Eyes

Kurt Elling · 1995 · Titre éponyme du premier album de Kurt Elling (Blue Note)

Context

Opening track of Kurt Elling's first album, recorded in 1994 with pianist Laurence Hobgood. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.

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

• Those Clouds Are Heavy, You Dig? (1995)
• All or Nothing at All (Kurt Elling) (2009)
• Dedicated to You (2009)
• Say It (Over and Over Again) (2009)
• You Are Too Beautiful (2009)

Sources

• EN: Close Your Eyes (Kurt Elling album)

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