Limehouse Blues (Bill Perkins)

Bill Perkins · 1956 · Standard pris vite, ténors en duo

Context

Last track on side A of the album Just Friends, recorded in autumn 1956. The album's page gives the 29 October session for this piece, with Perkins, Kamuca, Hampton Hawes, Red Mitchell and Mel Lewis.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool), West Coast. Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• Just Friends (Bill Perkins) (1956)
• Solid De Sylva (1956)
• Zenobia (1956)

Sources

• jazzmusicarchives.com
• EN: Bill Perkins (saxophonist)

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