Jersey Girl
Context
Song by Tom Waits on Temptation (Alert / Metro Blue, 1995), an album produced by Craig Street with Aaron Davis on arrangements. Holly Cole sings it with a band including Kevin Breit on guitar and David Piltch on double bass.
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).