You ain't been blue

Music in this episode:

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - “Mood Indigo” (1950)

The Harlem Footwarmers - “Mood Indigo” (1930)

The Boswell Sisters - “Mood Indigo” (1933)

Thelonious Monk - “Mood Indigo” (1955)

James Brown - “The Funky Drummer” (1970)

Diverse - “Move” (2001)

Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington - “Mood Indigo” (1956)

Ella Fitzgerald - “Mood Indigo” (1957)

Charles Mingus - “Mood Indigo” (1960)

Sonny Rollins - “Sonnymoon For Two” (1958)

Charles Mingus - “Jelly Roll” (1959)

Charles Mingus - “Mood Indigo” (1964)

Nina Simone - “Mood Indigo” (1959)

Nina Simone - “Mood Indigo” (1966)

The Singers Unlimited - “Mood Indigo” (1976)

Meat Beat Manifesto - “It’s The Music” (1996)

Abdullah Ibrahim - “Way Way Back” (1981)

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - “Take the A Train” (1941)

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - “Black and Tan Fantasy” (1927)

See Tyree Glenn play growl trombone on the BBC - at one point, Louis Armstrong yells from off mic, “Watch your language!”

References

A lot of the background in this episode comes from a grad school paper I wrote about Duke Ellington and formal music education

Björn Heile - “Who Wrote Duke Ellington’s Music? Authorship and Collective Creativity in ‘Mood Indigo’”

Fred Moten - In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition

RD Darrell - “Black Beauty” - in M. Tucker (Ed.), The Duke Ellington Reader