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You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Helen Merrill)

Helen Merrill · 1954 · with Clifford Brown

Context

Cole Porter song on Helen Merrill's first album, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones, with Clifford Brown as soloist. Recorded a few days after Brown's album with Sarah Vaughan, the record was an immediate success.

In the genealogy of jazz

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

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