Mourning Grace
Context
Second track of Café Blue (nearly seven minutes). Barber's third album (Premonition, 1994), in a quartet with John McLean, Michael Arnopol and Mark Walker.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).