Star Dust
Context
Opening track of "Ballads" (Trebim Music, September 19, 2025), the second duo album by Guadeloupean pianist Alain Jean-Marie and bassist Diego Imbert, after a first one devoted to Bill Evans. Hoagy Carmichael's standard opens a program of ballads from the Great American Songbook.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to French jazz, Antillean jazz (biguine, gwoka). Among the origins and influences of French jazz: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Traditional revival, Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz, Jazz in France (interwar years), Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East.