Sophisticated lady – Duke Ellington

Sophisticated Lady est une composition de Duke Ellington écrite en 1932, également créditée à Irving Mills. Des paroles y ont été ajoutées par Mitchell Parish. C’est devenu un standard de jazz repris par Sophisticated Lady a été joué, entre autres, par Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Erroll Garner, Thelonious Monk, Plays Duke Ellington (1955), Billie Holiday, All or Nothing at All (1955), Julie LAondon, Sophisticated Lady (1962), Charles Mingus, Meditation (1964), Martial Solal, en concert en 1976 (Best Of Live) et en medley sur Martial Solal Dodecaband Plays Ellington, Tony Bennett, In Concert: I Left My Heart in San Francisco (1980), Larry Coryell, Toku Do, 1987, Marcus Miller, Silver Rain, 2005, Bobby Few, L’écume des jours, 2013 .nDuke Ellington a enregistré ce morceau pour la première fois en 1933, avec en soliste Toby Hardwick, Barney Bigard et Lawrence Brown. Il est resté dans le hit-parade 16 semaines, allant jusqu’à la troisième place.nParoles de la chansonnSmoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow, nonchalantnDiamonds shining, dancing, dining with some man in a restaurantnIs that all you really want?nnNo, no, no, no sophisticated ladynI know, you miss the love you lost long agonAnd when nobody is nigh you crynnThey say into your early life romance camenAnd in this heart of yours burned a flamenA flame that flickered one day and died awaynnThen with disillusion deep in your eyesnYou learned that fools in love soon grow wisenThe years have changed you, somehow, I see you nownnSmoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow, nonchalantnDiamonds shining, dancing, dining with some man in a restaurantnIs that all you really want?nnNo, no, no, no sophisticated ladynI know, you miss the love you lost long agonAnd when nobody is nigh you crynYou crynYou crynVersions de Sophiticated LadyDuke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra Record: Brunswick 6600 … Recorded May 16, 1933Billie Holiday (voc) avec Lester Young (ts) 1955 .nSarah Vaughan (voc)navec Mundell Lowe (guitar) and George Duvivier (double bass). Recorded in RKO-Path Studio, New York City, July 18, 1961. (Roulette Records)nnnJohnny Hodges Septet – Sophisticated Lady (1951)nNelson Williams (trumpet), Lawrence Brown (trombone), Johnny Hodges (alto sax), Al Sears (tenor sax), Leroy Lovett (piano), Lloyd Trotman (bass), Sonny Greer (drums)nfrom the album ’IN A MELLOW TONE’ (Verve Records)nnMartial Solal solo  Live 1959/85 : The Best album Quadraphonic.nMarcus miller: Bass Clarinet, Fretless Bass. Keyboards, Synth Strings.nSylver Rain Dreyfus Jazz 2005.nTony Benett Cheek to Cheek Septembre 2014nThelonius Monk album Monk plays Ellington 21-25 juillet 1955 Riverside RecordsnDuke Ellington Harry Carney (baryton sax) en duo live Tournée européenne du Big band Copenhague 1965.nnnAnimateur : Alain VacquiénRéalisation : Bruno BertrandnnDiffusion du lundi au vendredi 10h00nDiffusion intégrale samedi 11h00n »

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