The World Is Falling Down
Context
Composition by Abbey Lincoln that opens the album of the same name, recorded in New York in February 1990 for Verve, with Clark Terry, Jackie McLean, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins and pianist Alain Jean-Marie, with arrangements by Ron Carter.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).