In a Dream
Context
Title track of the album In a Dream, released in 2009 on ObliqSound. The music is by Robert Glasper and the lyrics by Parlato, who surrounds herself with Lionel Loueke, Aaron Parks, Derrick Hodge and Kendrick Scott in a program mixing originals and covers of Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Duke Ellington.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).