Flamingo (Carmen McRae)

Carmen McRae · 1958 · Ballade de Grouya et Anderson

Context

Ballad by Ted Grouya and Edmund Anderson, recorded by Carmen McRae with the session's horns. It is one of the twelve tracks on Birds of a Feather.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. 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

• Skylark (Carmen McRae) (1958)
• A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Carmen McRae) (1958)
• Mister Meadowlark (1958)
• Something to Live For (1955)
• Get It Straight (1988)
• Dear Ruby (1988)

Sources

• EN: Birds of a Feather (Carmen McRae album)

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