My World
Context
Title song of Lisa Simone's second album, daughter of Nina Simone, co-written and co-produced with guitarist Hervé Samb and released in 2016 on Sound Surveyor. After All Is Well, devoted to her mother, this album, recorded in two French studios, is about her own life and her family; the track had been written before she moved to France.
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).