Fine and Mellow

Billie Holiday · 1939

Context

Composed by Billie Holiday, this blues was recorded for Commodore on April 20, 1939, at the "Strange Fruit" session, on whose record it occupies the other side. She performed it again in 1957 on the television show The Sound of Jazz, alongside Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, and Roy Eldridge.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Blues, spirituals, work songs. 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

• Strange Fruit (1939)
• God Bless the Child (1941)
• All of Me (1941)
• What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1935)
• Lover Man (1944)

Sources

• EN: Fine and Mellow

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