Sophisticated Lady - Rita Reys

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Uploaded by on Mar 12, 2011

http://www.ritareys.eu Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Lady, performed by Rita Reys at the Prague Jazz Festival 1964, Part of the Dutch public TV News, during that time known as the Polygoon Journaal. The (complete) audio recording of this performance is part of the 2005 Dutch Jazz Archives CD 'Rita Reys - I Got Rhythm'.

Duke Ellington composed Sophisticated Lady in 1932 with Irving Mills. The words were added later by Mitchell Parish. It is still a well-known jazz standard. Other famous renditions are by Toots Thielemans, Blossom Dearie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lana Turner, Billie Holiday and Rosemary Clooney.

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  • Ah,

    Heerlijk!!!

    Dank je wel!!!

  • thank you for sharing ;>)

  • Beautiful....Lovely song :-)

  • wonderful,thank you:-)

  • She really hasn't changed one bit! Rita still sounds the same, after all these years (and even better). What a shame that you can't show us the complete performance of this fab song. Thank you for sharing *****10***** !

  • I like this song

    Thanks dear friend

    Juanita

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