Line for Lyons
Context
Piece by Gerry Mulligan on the programme of Karrin Allyson's first album. Karrin Allyson plays piano and sings on it, with Todd Strait on drums.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Neoclassicism, Young Lions, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).