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!”ReferencesA lot of the background in this episode comes from a grad school paper I wrote about Duke Ellington and formal music educationBjörn 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 TraditionRD Darrell - “Black Beauty” - in M. Tucker (Ed.), The Duke Ellington Reader Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe