WomanChild
Context
Title track of Cécile McLorin Salvant's first album on Mack Avenue, the label she signed with after winning the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. Accompanied by Aaron Diehl, Rodney Whitaker, James Chirillo and Herlin Riley, she mixes standards, early 20th-century repertoire and compositions; the album was nominated for the 2014 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide). Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).