Get It Straight

Carmen McRae · 1988 · Texte de Sally Swisher sur « Straight, No Chaser »

Context

Vocal version of Thelonious Monk's "Straight, No Chaser", with lyrics by Sally Swisher, first track on the album, recorded live at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Appears on Carmen Sings Monk (Novus, 1990, producer Larry Clothier), whose titles were changed "for rights reasons."

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. 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

• Dear Ruby (1988)
• Monkery's the Blues (1988)
• Little Butterfly (1988)
• Something to Live For (1955)

Sources

• EN: Carmen Sings Monk

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