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
