Elsa
Context
Composition by Evans's friend Earl Zindars. Peter Pettinger describes an opening “with an air of mystery”; Dave Rickert sees it as the high point of the album, and Evans recorded it again a few weeks later with Cannonball Adderley.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool), Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.