Slap That Bass

The Ink Spots · 1937 · Chanson des Gershwin (Shall We Dance), version vocale

Context

Recorded for Decca on April 9, 1937, at the same session as "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" and "Swing High, Swing Low".

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. 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

• Alabama Barbecue (1937)
• Swing, Gate, Swing (1935)
• If I Didn't Care (1939)

Sources

• adp.library.ucsb.edu

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