I was an 18-year-old Marine recruit at MCRD San Diego, Plt. 139, in 1957, when we were marched to the base theater to enjoy a concert by Mr. Duke Ellington's orchestra. I remember Mood Indigo specifically. Later in life I appreciated what a privileged experience that was. With Marine boot camp of course.
I did the same thing with my 5 year old. As she was coming up I would expose her to as much music as I could so she wouldn't fall into the trap of crap music
Duke. My dad played your music albums every single day growing up. My dad played trumpet sax flugle horn trombone this was my life and I so appreciate this music 🎶
The duke totally grooves. He kept the band going with high quality musicians--Count basie told Clarke Terry when he asked if he could leave for the Duke in these years, well if you played baseball wouldnt you want to play for the Yankees--because he had invested his money in real estate and the stock market and could finance the band regardless of the lack of engagements after television gutted the swing era. He paid a weekly salary, regardless of performances, maintained a private Pullman car so the band did not have to deal with the problems of finding housing in the segregation era, and only fired one band member someone named Mingus, but would let people know by his lack of attentiont hat their services were no longer needed. Whatever the problems, he was a great artist. In fact, the Duke had won a national contest sponsered by the Urban League when in high school to make a poster that became the cover of Opportunity_ its journal. He was a gift, as each of us are in own way, but understood this more than most of us do. And he worked his butt off as a musician, music theorist, and manager of money.
Ellington would often play around with old arrangements and make changes depending a lot on personnel he had at the time. Mood Indigo went way back to 1930. This was recorded in 1952. What makes this version unusual is that the trio that opens the melody has two trombones and bass clarinet instead of trombone, trumpet and clarinet.
Only thing I can think of as being better than time-traveling to see this would be to have invested my life savings in Berkshire Hathaway at the time this was created.
Love this,!! Listen to what the Duke is doing at 3:10 mins😮 also love the solos, soloists and the band orchestration. I miss playing Ellington's music in a big band. I was fortunate to be able to play lead trombone in our Bismarck ND high school jazz band in the 1980s, led by our band director Mr Gordon Knaak , who was a really encouraging insightful band director he had a really good arrangement we played of a Duke Ellington medley, it was really fantastic. 🎶✨✨✨🐦
Harry Carney....one of the finest baritone sax players in classic jazz......he stayed with Ellington and never small-grouped..... but he left a legacy of tantalizing brief solos that were unforgettable. Best period?....1927 - 1942.
In the 1978 interview sponsored by the NEA, Tizol was very critical of Irving Mills for not only taking credit for compositions but also accepting the royalties. Tizol was convinced that Mills could not compose music and was known for taking credit for the work done by paid lyricists who wrote for a number of Duke Ellington Orchestra recordings. One example of this practice was "Mood Indigo" composed by Barney Bigard, that had lyrics credited to Mills but were "actually written by Mitchell Parish, a member of the Mills' stable of writers." Famed Iyricist Ervin Drake (2000) further confirms this practice when he said, "Most Tin Pan Alley regulars said Irving (Mills) bought out the lyric(s) that a real writer had created.: " Tizol, in 1978, was more emphatic, when he said, "I don't know if Irving Mills ever wrote any music." Quoted in Caravan Throught AMERICAN Life And Culture." Xlibris Corp. 2014 p. 317.
@@lordofthemound3890 composition, lyrics & copy rights are all different elements which distinctly combine themselves in one particular number. Mills bought lyrics and registered them under his name while the musical compositions where also never attributed to their real composers… Tizol, Williams, Bigard or other members of the orchestra. In the end all was a big construct (business) separate to music but based on it.
It says the trumpet soloist is "Wade Cook". I've never heard this name associated with Ellington, but there was a great trumpet player named Willie Cook or John Willie Cook on Ellington's band in the 50s. Is "Wade" possibly a typo?
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Saw Duke at Basin St West in San Fran, 1968. And-he-was-truly-wonderful.
I was an 18-year-old Marine recruit at MCRD San Diego, Plt. 139, in 1957, when we were marched to the base theater to enjoy a concert by Mr. Duke Ellington's orchestra. I remember Mood Indigo specifically. Later in life I appreciated what a privileged experience that was. With Marine boot camp of course.
My 6 day old daughter is hearing the first time. She seems to like it ok. ❤
I did the same thing with my 5 year old. As she was coming up I would expose her to as much music as I could so she wouldn't fall into the trap of crap music
@@thebluntandonlyexpose your children to all forms of music.. jazz, rock and roll, blues, country, doo-wop everything...
Duke. My dad played your music albums every single day growing up. My dad played trumpet sax flugle horn trombone this was my life and I so appreciate this music 🎶
The duke totally grooves. He kept the band going with high quality musicians--Count basie told Clarke Terry when he asked if he could leave for the Duke in these years, well if you played baseball wouldnt you want to play for the Yankees--because he had invested his money in real estate and the stock market and could finance the band regardless of the lack of engagements after television gutted the swing era. He paid a weekly salary, regardless of performances, maintained a private Pullman car so the band did not have to deal with the problems of finding housing in the segregation era, and only fired one band member someone named Mingus, but would let people know by his lack of attentiont hat their services were no longer needed. Whatever the problems, he was a great artist. In fact, the Duke had won a national contest sponsered by the Urban League when in high school to make a poster that became the cover of Opportunity_ its journal. He was a gift, as each of us are in own way, but understood this more than most of us do. And he worked his butt off as a musician, music theorist, and manager of money.
They named a bridge in DC in his honor. I think its by Rock Creek Park.
I love the clarinet solo in this, so much. I've just started playing clarinet for a couple months and I hope to play it one day
@@ketongu it's a beautiful solo, if I ever picked up clarinet mood indigo is the first song I'd learn
Ellington would often play around with old arrangements and make changes depending a lot on personnel he had at the time. Mood Indigo went way back to 1930. This was recorded in 1952. What makes this version unusual is that the trio that opens the melody has two trombones and bass clarinet instead of trombone, trumpet and clarinet.
ok
quien es el clarinete??
@@0211aze Russell Procope
Arranging is the shit! Makes it or breaks it.
Wow. Awesome.
If I had a time machine I’d go back and see this concert. Most probably more than once.
Great post, thank you!
Only thing I can think of as being better than time-traveling to see this would be to have invested my life savings in Berkshire Hathaway at the time this was created.
The atmosphere of the old days is very good
What a gorgeous tone poem and, a reminder, if any were needed, of the piano virtuosity of Mr. Ellington.
Love this,!! Listen to what the Duke is doing at 3:10 mins😮 also love the solos, soloists and the band orchestration. I miss playing Ellington's music in a big band. I was fortunate to be able to play lead trombone in our Bismarck ND high school jazz band in the 1980s, led by our band director Mr Gordon Knaak , who was a really encouraging insightful band director he had a really good arrangement we played of a Duke Ellington medley, it was really fantastic. 🎶✨✨✨🐦
😊
Never tire of this great arrangement of the great tune.
Muted Trombones and Bass Clarinet.. God, it doesn't get better than that ! Really influential composition.
Priceless ! Timeless ! Delightful !
Wonderful performance!
thank you for posting the great Duke Ellington. ❤❤
Harry Carney....one of the finest baritone sax players in classic jazz......he stayed with Ellington and never small-grouped..... but he left a legacy of tantalizing brief solos that were unforgettable. Best period?....1927 - 1942.
Masterpiece!!!!
Muy buena música, mi papá la escuchaba y crecí con ella ,me encanta
Si esta música es muy arrolladora y dulce para los oídos. Que gran obra de su papá para enseñarle canciones así de joven.
MASTERPIECE
that clarinet man
Thank you for the better version. (Russell Procope, not Jimmy Hamilton)
No problem, hoped you enjoyed it!
@@NFSCalex This was on American Bandstand.
Magic
Pure class
In the 1978 interview sponsored by the NEA, Tizol was very critical of Irving Mills for not only taking credit for compositions but also accepting the royalties. Tizol was convinced that Mills could not compose music and was known for taking credit for the work done by paid lyricists who wrote for a number of Duke Ellington Orchestra recordings. One example of this practice was "Mood Indigo" composed by Barney Bigard, that had lyrics credited to Mills but were "actually written by Mitchell Parish, a member of the Mills' stable of writers." Famed Iyricist Ervin Drake (2000) further confirms this practice when he said, "Most Tin Pan Alley regulars said Irving (Mills) bought out the lyric(s) that a real writer had created.: " Tizol, in 1978, was more emphatic, when he said, "I don't know if Irving Mills ever wrote any music." Quoted in Caravan Throught AMERICAN Life And Culture." Xlibris Corp. 2014 p. 317.
Thank you I have got to find that interview
Sadly, copyright law has nothing to do with protecting creators.
@@lordofthemound3890 composition, lyrics & copy rights are all different elements which distinctly combine themselves in one particular number. Mills bought lyrics and registered them under his name while the musical compositions where also never attributed to their real composers… Tizol, Williams, Bigard or other members of the orchestra. In the end all was a big construct (business) separate to music but based on it.
Fabulous
Willie Cook is no joke
2:30
Ost. The Legend Of Bagger Vance it is!
Russ is using an "Albert" system Clarinet...
まってたこれ。
It says the trumpet soloist is "Wade Cook". I've never heard this name associated with Ellington, but there was a great trumpet player named Willie Cook or John Willie Cook on Ellington's band in the 50s. Is "Wade" possibly a typo?
Nope. It's Wade. Duke himself says so: th-cam.com/video/hiLaRdYIvk0/w-d-xo.html
Yeah, that's Willie Cook.
Unique.
Fab
Before he became the ghost in the attic
he might have became the ghost but he haunted the world forever..
😮
映像でわかる感じ。
素敵です。ずっと音だけでした。とてもいい雰囲気ですね。
Is that Jimmy Hamilton on clarinet?
Russell Procope, not Jimmy Hamilton
What happened to the American music.. ? God!!🙀😧...
Rap and hiphop ruined it.
Je préfère la version avec Coleman Hawkins.
This film is from 1932 not 1952
This film is indeed from 1952. Louis Bellson was eight years old in 1932.