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Duke Ellington and his orchestra playing this awesome tune in 1943. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by...
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- bretodeau
- Mood Indigo
- It Don’T Mean A Thing
- Caravan
- Prelude to A Kiss
- Cotton Tail
- C Jam Blues
- Come Sunday
- Satin Doll
- I Got It Bad
- Never No Lament
Duke Ellington showed musical talent from an early age, although he was not initially convinced that music was his calling. At 15, whilst working as a soda dispenser, he wrote “Soda Fountain Rag”, despite the fact that he could not yet read music. Later, having moved to New York and now leading his own band, he secured a residency playing for dance...
This uptempo dance number perfectly encapsulates the raucous atmosphere of the 1930s Swing era. The song’s title was apparently a saying of trumpeter Bubber Miley, an early member of his Orchestra, who died of tuberculosis in 1932, the year of the song’s release. Ellington described it as “the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz mu...
Caravan is one of Duke Ellington’s most famous songs, and a classic example of the “Spanish tinge” in jazz. The expression was coined by New Orleans innovator Jelly Roll Morton, and refers to the influence that Afro-Latin and Cuban sounds have had upon jazz since the music’s origins in the melting pot of New Orleans. Ellington would often take a ph...
In 1938 Duke Ellington was a musical celebrity at the height of the swing era. “Prelude to a Kiss”, which was composed that year, represented something of a stylistic departure for the composer. He abandoned the happy-go-lucky feeling associated with swing dancing in favour of the complex, chromatic sounds heard here, which perhaps owe something to...
Duke led his Orchestra from 1923 until his death in 1974 and, as you’d expect over such a long period, musicians came and went. One famous edition of the Orchestra is now known as the Blanton-Webster band, which recorded extensively between approximately 1940-41, and which notably featured tenor saxophone giant Ben Websterand double bassist Jimmy B...
Duke Ellington’s music was always steeped in blues feeling, but he also wrote a number of actual 12-bar blues tunes. The most famous of these is “C Jam Blues”. Its incredibly simple melody makes it ideal for beginner musicians and jam session settings: in its most basic form, it only contains two notes – C and G. The original, riff-based tune was p...
Ellington wrote an ambitious three-part suite called Black, Brown and Beige– the sort of extended work usually tackled by classical, rather than jazz, composers – for his first concert at New York’s hallowed Carnegie Hall in January 1943. He described it as “a parallel to the history of the Negro in America.” “Come Sunday”, a beautiful, spiritual-s...
“Satin Doll” was written with Billy Strayhorn, who was Ellington’s close collaborator for almost 30 years. Strayhorn was classically trained and provided lyrics, compositions, arrangements and occasional piano for the Orchestra. In fact, the informal and intimate nature of their working relationship meant that it was not always clear who wrote what...
Ellington was known for writing pieces with particular members of his band in mind, to suit their respective sounds and personalities. This song of unrequited love was long associated with saxophonist Johnny Hodges, whose vibrato-laden lead alto tone is a classic sound in big band jazz. Hodges played a short solo feature on the original recording w...
“Never No Lament” was recorded as an instrumental number in 1940, but songwriter Bob Russell put lyrics to it two years later and it is now more commonly known as “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”. Russell came up with words for a number of Ellington tunes from this period, and his lyric here is from the perspective of a rejected lover who prefers to...
9 giu 2023 · Duke Ellington’s timeless tunes have left an indelible mark on the world of jazz and continue to captivate audiences today. His innovative compositions, masterful arrangements, and versatile musical style have made him one of the most influential musicians in history.
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21 mag 2015 · Ellington's biographer, Terry... Mood Indigo" (1930) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.
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Duke Ellington, pseudonimo di Edward Kennedy Ellington (Washington, 29 aprile 1899 – New York, 24 maggio 1974), è stato un direttore d'orchestra, compositore e pianista statunitense.
