Makin' Whoopee

Dr. John · 1989 · With Rickie Lee Jones, on In a Sentimental Mood; Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Duo

Context

Standard by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson covered by Dr. John in a duet with Rickie Lee Jones on In a Sentimental Mood (Warner Bros., 1989), a standards album produced by Tommy LiPuma. Recorded at Ocean Way studios in Los Angeles with brass arrangements by Ralph Burns, this version, a kind of vocal banter, opens the New Orleans pianist's "standards" period. The album spent eleven weeks on the Billboard 200.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, New Orleans. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

Sources

• EN: In a Sentimental Mood (Dr. John album)

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