Relaxin' at Camarillo
Context
Composition by Charlie Parker (3 min 21 s), opening track of Tommy Flanagan's album Overseas, recorded in Stockholm in 1957 and released by Prestige in 1958. Flanagan re-recorded it in 1996 on the trio album Sea Changes.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's). Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).