Dear Ruby

Carmen McRae · 1988 · Texte de Sally Swisher sur « Ruby, My Dear »

Context

Vocal version of "Ruby, My Dear" by Thelonious Monk, with lyrics by Sally Swisher, recorded in the studio in New York in April 1988. It appears on Carmen Sings Monk (Novus, 1990, producer Larry Clothier), whose titles were changed "for rights reasons."

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. 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

• Get It Straight (1988)
• Monkery's the Blues (1988)
• Little Butterfly (1988)
• Something to Live For (1955)

Sources

• EN: Carmen Sings Monk

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