Work Song (Nat Adderley)
Context
Nat Adderley recorded his composition in January 1960 at Reeves studios in New York, with Wes Montgomery, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones or Percy Heath and Louis Hayes, for the album Work Song (Riverside). Oscar Brown Jr. added lyrics to it the same year; the tune became a vocal and instrumental standard, covered in French by Claude Nougaro (Sing Sing Song).
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).