Azure (song)

"Azure" is a 1937 song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills.^[1] The composition is an example of Ellington's early use of bi- and polytonality, and some parts of it are almost atonal in nature.^[2]

Notable recordings

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957) "Ella at Duke's Place" (1965)
Earl Grant - Midnight Sun (1962)
Cecil Taylor - Jazz Advance (1956)
Tony Bennett - "Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool" (1999)

References

^ Jazz Standards website
^ Wallenfeldt, Jeff (2010). The Black Experience in America: From civil rights to the present. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-61530-177-5.

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[1] Jazz Standards website

[2] Wallenfeldt, Jeff (2010). The Black Experience in America: From civil rights to the present. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-61530-177-5.

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