How High the Moon

Ella Fitzgerald · 1947 · Decca studio version, December 20, 1947

Context

Ella Fitzgerald recorded her version of How High the Moon on December 20, 1947, in New York, with a small group that included Leonard Graham on trumpet and Ray Brown on bass. Released on Decca 24387. The track's chord changes also serve as the basis for Charlie Parker's Ornithology.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's). 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

• A-Tisket, A-Tasket (1938)
• Mack the Knife (Berlin, 1960) (1960)

Sources

• EN: How High the Moon
• adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu

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