Prelude to a Kiss

Carol Sloane · 1962 · Standard d'Ellington en ballade, premier album de Sloane

Context

Theme by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Gordon and Irving Mills, recorded in late 1961 in New York for Out of the Blue. The album mixes ballads and swing numbers, with arrangements by Bill Finegan.

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).

By the same artist

• Little Girl Blue (1962)
• The More I See You (1962)
• Will You Still Be Mine? (1962)

Sources

• EN: Out of the Blue (Carol Sloane album)

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