Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals
Context
The Raymond Scott Quintette recorded this piece in 1937, in the vein of the bandleader's "novelty jazz." Carl Stalling quotes it three times in Greetings Bait (Friz Freleng, May 1943), and it reappears in several other Warner cartoons.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.