The Funky Fox
Context
Composition by Shirley Scott opening the album Blue Flames, recorded at Van Gelder studio on March 31, 1964, and released by Prestige. The organist plays there with saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, whom she had married in 1961, in a soul jazz that Scott Yanow judged bop enough to interest jazz fans.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Soul jazz, boogaloo: Hard bop, Jump blues, R&B, Gospel.