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In a Mellow Tone

Index In a Mellow Tone

"In a Mellow Tone", also known as "In a Mellotone", is a 1939 jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Milt Gabler. [1]

56 relations: Art Hickman, Art Pepper, Ben Webster, Ben Webster and Associates, Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool, Billy May, Blues in Orbit, Bob Wilber, Cha Cha! Billy May, Chico Hamilton, Clare Teal, Clark Terry, Coleman Hawkins, Contrasts (Erroll Garner album), Dick Hyman, Don't Talk (album), Duke Ellington, Duke with a Difference, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book, Eric Dolphy, Erroll Garner, George Cables, Goin' Home (Art Pepper and George Cables album), Harry James, Harry Williams (songwriter), Howard Stern, Humming Bird (Paul Gonsalves album), Jazz standard, Joe Pass, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross!, Louis Armstrong, Marcus Roberts, Maynard Ferguson, Mellow Mood, Milt Gabler, Nick Brignola, Night Hawk (album), Oscar Peterson, Pastiche (album), Paul Gonsalves, Portraits of Duke Ellington, Red Norvo, Rose Room, Roy Eldridge, Royce Campbell, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington, ..., The Great Summit, The Howard Stern Show, The Manhattan Transfer, The New York Times, The Original Ellington Suite, Tony Bennett. Expand index (6 more) »

Art Hickman

Arthur George Hickman (June 13, 1886 – January 16, 1930) was a drummer, pianist, and bandleader of one of the first big bands.

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Art Pepper

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Ben Webster and Associates

Ben Webster and Associates is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ben Webster featuring tracks recorded in 1959 for the Verve label.

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Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool

Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1999 to commemorate the centenary of Duke Ellington's birth.

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Billy May

Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter.

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Blues in Orbit

Blues in Orbit is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia label in 1959 and released in 1960.

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Bob Wilber

Bob Wilber (born 15 March 1928) is an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader.

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Cha Cha! Billy May

Cha Cha! Billy May is a studio album released by Billy May in 1960 on Capitol LP record T1329 (monophonic) and ST1329 (stereophonic).

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Chico Hamilton

Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, (September 20, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Clare Teal

Clare Teal (born 14 May 1973, Kildwick, Yorkshire) is an English singer and broadcaster who has become famous not only for her singing, but also for having signed the biggest recording contract by a British jazz singer.

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Clark Terry

Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Contrasts (Erroll Garner album)

Contrasts is a 1955 studio album by Erroll Garner.

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Dick Hyman

Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Don't Talk (album)

Don't Talk is jazz vocalist Clare Teal's sixth album, released in 2004.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Duke with a Difference

Duke with a Difference is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clark Terry featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.

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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Edward F. Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book is a 1957 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, focusing on Ellington's songs.

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Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist.

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Erroll Garner

Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1923 – January 2, 1977; some sources say b. 1921) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads.

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George Cables

George Andrew Cables (born November 14, 1944) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Goin' Home (Art Pepper and George Cables album)

Goin' Home is a duet album by saxophonist Art Pepper and pianist George Cables recorded in 1982 and released on the Galaxy label.

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Harry James

Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946.

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Harry Williams (songwriter)

Harry Hiram Williams (August 23, 1879 – May 15, 1922) was an American composer, lyricist, and publisher of popular music from 1903 until his death in 1922.

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Howard Stern

Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, producer, author, actor, and photographer.

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Humming Bird (Paul Gonsalves album)

Humming Bird is an album recorded in 1970 by Paul Gonsalves.

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Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

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Joe Pass

Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent.

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Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross were an American vocalese trio formed by jazz vocalists Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross.

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Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross!

Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross!: "The Hottest New Group In Jazz", is the fourth album by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, released in 1960.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Marcus Roberts

Marthaniel "Marcus" Roberts (born August 7, 1963) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher.

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Maynard Ferguson

Walter Maynard Ferguson C.M. (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

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Mellow Mood

Mellow Mood is an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, released in 1968 (see 1968 in music).

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Milt Gabler

Milton "Milt" Gabler (May 20, 1911 – July 20, 2001) was an American record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century.

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Nick Brignola

Nick Brignola (July 17, 1936 – February 8, 2002) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.

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Night Hawk (album)

Night Hawk is an album by saxophonists Coleman Hawkins with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis recorded at the end of 1960 and released on the Swingville label.

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

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Pastiche (album)

Pastiche was released by The Manhattan Transfer on January 19, 1978, by Atlantic Records.

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Paul Gonsalves

Paul Gonsalves (–) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington.

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Portraits of Duke Ellington

Portraits of Duke Ellington is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1975.

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Red Norvo

Red Norvo (born Kenneth Norville, March 31, 1908 – April 6, 1999) was one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr.

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Rose Room

"Rose Room", also known as "In Sunny Roseland", is a 1917 jazz standard, music by Art Hickman, lyrics by Harry Williams.

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Roy Eldridge

David Roy Eldridge (30 January 1911 – 26 February 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpet player.

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Royce Campbell

Royce Campbell (born June 7, 1952) is a jazz guitarist from Indiana who was a member of the Henry Mancini orchestra for twenty years.

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Sonny Stitt

Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom.

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Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington

Sonny Stitt with Strings: A Tribute to Duke Ellington is an album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt featuring performances of compositions associated with Duke Ellington recorded in 1977 for the Catalyst label.

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The Great Summit

The Great Summit: The Master Takes is a 2001 Blue Note album by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

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The Howard Stern Show

The Howard Stern Show is an American talk radio show hosted by Howard Stern.

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The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is a jazz vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a capella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Original Ellington Suite

The Original Ellington Suite is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton's Quintet recorded in 1958 but not released on the Pacific Jazz label until 2000.

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Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Mellow_Tone

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