Azure (song) explained

"Azure" is a 1937 song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills.^[1] The composition is an example of Ellington's early use of bi- and polytonality, and some parts of it are almost atonal in nature.^[2]

Notable recordings

• Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957) "Ella at Duke's Place" (1965)
• Earl Grant - Midnight Sun (1962)
• Cecil Taylor - Jazz Advance (1956)
• Tony Bennett - "" (1999)

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards

References

1. http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-6/azure.htm Jazz Standards website
2. Book: Wallenfeldt, Jeff . The Black Experience in America: From civil rights to the present . The Rosen Publishing Group . 2010 . 978-1-61530-177-5 . 87.