Lullaby of Birdland

Sarah Vaughan · 1954

Context

George Shearing wrote this theme in 1952 for Morris Levy, owner of the New York club Birdland, whose radio show needed a theme song. The lyrics by George David Weiss came afterward. Sarah Vaughan's version, accompanied by Clifford Brown among others, opens her EmArcy album and was a hit in 1954, establishing the track as a sung standard.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's). 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

• Embraceable You (1954)
• Misty (1958)
• Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) (Tivoli, 1963) (1963)

Sources

• EN: Lullaby of Birdland
• EN: Sarah Vaughan (1955 album)

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