Duke Ellington co-wrote "In A Sentimental Mood" & this "mood"y 1931 standard
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Duke Ellington facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Make research projects and school reports about Duke Ellington easy with credible ... Appeared in and/or wrote scores for films, including Check and Double .... Ellington's 1931 long piece, titled Creole Rhapsody, offered confirmation of [his] .... as Mood Indigo and In a Sentimental Mood remain jazz standards more than...
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Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (In a Sentimental Mood)  Jazz Standards.com : Jazz Standards : Songs : History : Biographies ... Duke Ellington, In A Sentimental Mood (Digitally Remastered '96) - Nancy Wilson ... Accolades have included Simply the most beautiful song ever written and The...
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Duke Ellington: At The Cotton Club - All About Jazz  Oct 11, 2015 ... Duke Ellington: At The Cotton Club jazz review by Chris Mosey, published on ... In 1932, without realizing it, he wrote the anthem for the so-called new ... who had joined the band in 1931 as it's first full-time vocalist. ... The orchestra's version of "In A Sentimental Mood" is cut short, ... Anatomy of a Standard.
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In a Sentimental Mood - Wikipedia  "In a Sentimental Mood" is a jazz composition by Duke Ellington which is also performed as a song. Ellington composed the piece in 1935 and recorded it with his orchestra the same year. Lyrics were later written for the tune by Manny Kurtz; as was the custom of the day, Ellington's ... List of 1930s jazz standards...
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List of 1930s jazz standards - Wikipedia  Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by ... Duke Ellington and his band members composed numerous swing era hits that .... Louis Armstrong made the first jazz recording of the song in 1931. ..... Smith wrote a part of the composition, but was denied co-credit by Basie.
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Remembering Duke Ellington - Naxos  For most his long and illustrious career Duke Ellington was a major figure in jazz, and an ... However, with the take-off of Swing inspired by Benny Goodman's 1935 ... By the time 'Harlem's Aristocrat of Jazz' had quit the Cotton Club to tour the...
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Chapter 8: Duke Ellington and Count Basie | Jazz: W. W. Norton ...  It began in the Southwest and spread during the 1920s, finding a home in ... In cities, it was played in speakeasies, where pianists would work all night for tips and ... Women had to overcome the prejudice against playing an instrument in public. .... added a rich tone to the band, in the case of the former, and a classical tone,...
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Jeopary Questions page 210 - FUN WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE ...  COMPOSERS: This "noble" jazzman wrote "Sophisticated Lady" & "Mood Indigo"  AMERICAN LITERATURE: Truman Capote's nonfiction novel "In Cold Blood"...
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Black, Brown, And Beige - The New Yorker  May 17, 2010 ... Duke Ellington's music and race in America. ... way to a refined society tunerough and smooth, black and tan, Miley and Ellingtonor ... (I like great big ole tears, Ellington said, teasingly, about audience reactions.) .... One of Ellington's most beloved songs, Sophisticated Lady, has several contributing...
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Duke Ellington - Wikipedia  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899  May 24, 1974) was an American composer, .... Ellington started to play gigs in cafs and clubs in and around Washington, D.C. His .... down a regular booking for his group as the house band at Harlem's Cotton Club; the ..... Fate doesn't want me to be famous too young.
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Benny Goodman Quartet - Moonglow :: Music :: Audio :: Benny ...  This grand reunion of the classic Benny Goodman Quartet from 1936, featuring Lionel Hampton on vibraphone, Teddy Wilson on piano, and Gene Krupa on drums, ... Soul," another oft-covered jazz standard which the original Goodman quartet .... The Decemberists Announce The Crane Wife Reissue to Include Essay by...
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There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight - Wikipedia  "A Hot Time in the Old Town" is an American ragtime song, composed in 1896 by Theodore ... The song was a favorite of the American military around the start of the 20th century, particularly during the ... The tune became popular in the military after it was used as a theme by Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The song has...
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Duke Ellington - Wikipedia  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899  May 24, 1974) was an American composer, ... Ellington also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizol's ... I was established as having my own repertoire. .... (1930), "Sophisticated Lady" (1933), "Solitude" (1934), and "In a Sentimental Mood" (1935).
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tNTRODUCTtON ...  songs in the jazzman's repertoire, not to mention some oithe most musically ... of these have been heavily recorded; at the time of this writing over fifty jazz ... ce (retitled by more than one wag "l've ... I Can't Get Started (lra Gershwin-Vernon Duke) (1935) ..... A Foggy Day in London town Had me low and had me down.
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Take the "A" Train - Wikipedia  "Take the 'A' Train" is a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. It is arguably the most famous of the many compositions to emerge from the collaboration of Ellington and Strayhorn. ... "Take the 'A' Train" was composed in 1939, after Ellington offered Strayhorn a job in his...
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the stories behind the songs  the standards - Basin Street  A Train. 1941 53. A You're Adorable. 1948 190. 3rd Man Theme. 1949 191 ...... famous composition became Duke's theme - Take the A Train. ... Ellington's song I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart was written for a Cotton ...... Later in the decade, Carl wrote hits for ...... Frankie Laine made the most popular recording of.
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Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington [Compilation] - AllMusic  Duke Ellington's music has long excited Oscar Peterson. ... The most obscure piece on the CD is "Lady of the Lavender Mist," which Ellington recorded in 1947...
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Duke Ellington - Wikipedia  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899  May 24, 1974) was an American composer, ... His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a special Pulitzer .... An alcoholic, Miley had to leave the band before they gained wider fame. ...... Ellington, The Early Years, University of Illinois Press, 1991.
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Duke Ellington - Wikipedia  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899  May 24, 1974) was an American composer, ... Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, ... Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his ... Among the many piano players he listened to were Doc Perry, Lester...
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Duke through the decades: the music and its reception  The categories that both challenged and spurred Ellington were jazz and race. ..... A similar contrast informs his extended work of 1950, Harlem, with its recurring ... Tucker highlights the contrast between the non-blues first strain, with its .... In the January 1931 version, Part I comprises a large-scale ternary (ABA) form in...
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Billy Strayhorn facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Although Strayhorn composed many works for the Ellington band on his own, ... some of his compositions to bandleader Duke Ellington when Ellington's orchestra ... A particularly notable period occurred during a strike by the American Society of ... Compositions include Take the 'A' Train, Rain Check, and A Flower Is a...