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"The Mooche" is an American jazz song, composed in 1928 by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills.[1] The song is in the so-called "jungle style" and includes the clarinet and mutedtrumpet typical of Ellington's work.[2]James "Bubber" Miley was among the musicians that recorded the original version of the song.[3] The song is played in C minor.
In 1933 Ellington explained that the title referred to 'a certain lazy gait peculiar to some of the folk of Harlem'.[4]
^Duke Ellington, 'My Hunt for Song Titles', Rhythm, August 1933, pp. 22–3, quoted in Mark Tucker (ed.), The Duke Ellington Reader (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 88.
