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Context
Song by Murray Grand recorded by Blossom Dearie on September 11 and 12, 1956, for her first record on Verve, produced by Norman Granz and released in April 1957. She sings and plays piano on it with Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, and Jo Jones, on a repertoire mixing American standards and French-language songs, inherited from her Paris years with the Blue Stars. Billboard praised her veiled voice at the time without expecting big sales.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).