Strasbourg / St. Denis
Context
Composition by Roy Hargrove, whose title refers to a Paris metro station (lines 4, 8, and 9). It is the third track (4 min 40) on the album Earfood, recorded in September 2007 at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and released by EmArcy in June 2008. Wikipedia presents it as a modern jazz standard.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).