Something Cool

June Christy · 1954 · arr. Pete Rugolo

Context

Song by Billy Barnes, opening track of the Capitol album arranged and conducted by Pete Rugolo. The record reached #8 on the Billboard sales chart in January 1955, and John Bush credits it with launching the cool style of jazz singing.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

Sources

• EN: Something Cool
• EN: June Christy

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