Young and Foolish

Tony Bennett · 1975 · Opening of the album with Bill Evans, recorded in Berkeley in June 1975.

Context

Song by Albert Hague and Arnold B. Horwitt, "Young and Foolish" opens the duo album by Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, recorded June 10 to 13, 1975, at Fantasy studios in Berkeley under Helen Keane's production. Evans, who had already cut the song in 1958, is a full partner rather than an accompanist. Suggested by Annie Ross, the meeting is considered by Bennett the most prestigious project of his career.

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).

Sources

• EN: Bill Evans Album

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