Medgar Evers' Blues
Context
Excerpt from The Marksman (Warner Bros., 1990), a hard bop album by Mark Whitfield with Marcus Roberts on piano, Reginald Veal on bass and Herlin Riley on drums. The title refers to Medgar Evers; the page says nothing more about the composition.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Neoclassicism, Young Lions, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Neoclassicism, Young Lions: Hard bop, Modal.