Last Train to Clarksville

Cassandra Wilson · 1995 · Reprise des Monkees sur un tempo décalé

Context

Eighth track, a cover of the song by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, 5 min 15 long. The album reached number one on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart and received the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. 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

• Love Is Blindness (1995)
• Death Letter (1995)
• Harvest Moon (1995)
• Strange Fruit (Cassandra Wilson) (1995)
• Hellhound on My Trail (1993)
• Come On in My Kitchen (1993)

Sources

• EN: New Moon Daughter

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