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Azure (song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Azure'" is a 1937 song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills.[http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/azure.htm Jazz Standards website] The composition is an example of Ellington's early use of bi- and polytonality, and some parts of it are almost atonal in nature.
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)
See also
*List of 1930s jazz standards
References
Category:Songs with music by Duke Ellington
Category:Songs with lyrics by Irving Mills
Category:Jazz songs
Category:1930s jazz standards
Category:1937 songs
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