Artist: Duke Ellington Orch.
Author: Billy Strayhorn
Label: Vintage Jazz Classic
Year: 1948
At Carnegie Hall. Vocal: Kay Davis, piano: author Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's arranger between '39 and '67; wrote Take The A Train.
Covers:
John Coltrane [and in '63 with Johnny Hartman]
Billy Strayhorn [author]
Linda Ronstadt [album title track]
Living Colour [sampled the intro of Nat King Cole's version to start off their Love Rears Its Ugly Head]
Bill Frisell [and in '24 with the Brussels Philharmonic]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)