Lover Man

Billie Holiday · 1944 (year to be confirmed)

Context

Composed in 1941 for Billie Holiday by Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez and James Sherman. Holiday recorded it for Decca in October 1944 with a string accompaniment, which Milt Gabler got his management to accept. Released in 1945, the record reached number 5 on the U.S. R&B chart; it entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989.

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).

By the same artist

• God Bless the Child (1941)
• All of Me (1941)
• Strange Fruit (1939)
• Fine and Mellow (1939)
• What a Little Moonlight Can Do (1935)

Sources

• EN: Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
• jazzstandards.com
• EN: The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters

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