Don't Go to Strangers

Etta Jones · 1960 · Titre-phare d'Etta Jones, entré dans le Top 40 pop en 1960

Context

Second track of the album of the same name, recorded in a single session on June 21, 1960. The piece made Etta Jones a sudden commercial success, reaching the pop Top 40 and number five on the R&B chart, and the album entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.

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

• Fine and Mellow (Etta Jones) (1960)
• On the Street Where You Live (1960)
• Bye Bye Blackbird (Etta Jones) (1960)

Sources

• EN: Don't Go to Strangers

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