Little Girl Blue
Context
Standard by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart that Carol Sloane sang at the Newport festival in 1961, where she was noticed. It opens her first album, Out of the Blue (Columbia, 1962), arranged by Bill Finegan.
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).