Jonah
Context
Spiritual recorded a cappella by the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet on August 4, 1937 in Charlotte (North Carolina), at its first sessions for Bluebird, and released on September 15, 1937 on the Bluebird B-7154 78 rpm. The group, then attached to station WBT, blends jubilee-style harmonies with syncopated rhythms from jazz. Its John the Revelator (1938) was added to the National Recording Registry in 2005.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).