Azure (song)

This article is about Duke Ellington song. For Band-Maid song, see Conqueror (Band-Maid album).

"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 - "Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool" (1999)

See also

• List of 1930s jazz standards