I'm a Fool to Want You

Billie Holiday · 1958 · Ballade coécrite par Sinatra, voix usée de Holiday

Context

Song by Frank Sinatra, Joel Herron, and Jack Wolf that opens the album, with Urbie Green on trombone solo. 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

• You've Changed (1958)
• I'll Be Around (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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