These Foolish Things
Context
Standard by Jack Strachey, Harry Link, and Eric Maschwitz, "These Foolish Things" appears on the first volume of At the Hickory House, recorded live on April 5, 1956, by German pianist Jutta Hipp in a trio with Peter Ind and Ed Thigpen, for Blue Note and Alfred Lion. Released in June 1956, the album documents Hipp's brief American career; AllMusic hears in it small-combo jazz with a light swing, between hard bop and soul-jazz.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.