I'll Be Around

Billie Holiday · 1958 · Ballade d'Alec Wilder, face B

Context

Alec Wilder tune, fifth track on side B. Columbia album, recorded on February 19, 20, and 21, 1958 at Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York, produced by Irving Townsend.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. 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

• I'm a Fool to Want You (1958)
• You've Changed (1958)
• But Beautiful (1958)
• Lover Man (1944)
• God Bless the Child (1941)
• All of Me (1941)

Sources

• EN: Lady in Satin

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