Tight (Kurt Elling)

Kurt Elling · 2007 · Hommage à Betty Carter

Context

Kurt Elling's cover of the Betty Carter piece, in second position on Nightmoves. Christian McBride plays double bass on this track.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Nightmoves (2007)
• Undun (2007)
• A New Body and Soul (2007)
• All or Nothing at All (Kurt Elling) (2009)
• Dedicated to You (2009)
• Say It (Over and Over Again) (2009)

Sources

• EN: Nightmoves

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