Duke Ellington - "Moonglow" (1934)

"Moonglow"
Music by Will Hudson and Irving Mills and words by Eddie DeLange
Performed by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Recorded September 12, 1934
Brunswick 6987

Personnel:
Duke Ellington - piano, arranger, director
Arthur Whetsel, Freddy Jenkins, Cootie Williams - trumpets
Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown - trombones
Juan Tizol - valve trombone
Johnny Hodges - soprano saxophone
Harry Carney, Otto Hardwick, Barney Bigard - reeds
Fred Guy - guitar
Sonny Greer - drums

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Duke Ellington
• Johnny Hodges
• Moonglow
• Will Hudson
• Eddie DeLange
• Irving Mills
• 1934
• Brunswick
• 6987
• jazz
• swing
• Sonny Greer
• Cootie Williams
• original

[MoleDFigg]

I'm with pax41 on this one, so smooth, thanks again.

Clive.

[bsgs98]

@MoleDFigg Thanks, Clive. I appreciate your remarks.

Bill

[pax41]

Bill you out did yourself on this one. This is a great video! Love the fades, that lady holding the moon, where did you find that. The visuals were just perfect on this.

[bsgs98]

@pax41 Thank you, Bob. I extracted it from a poster "La Grande Lunette" ('the large telescope') dated 1900. In the original, the lady was holding an illuminated sphere. I pasted the moon image over the sphere.

[abendstunde49]

Beautiful music and video!

[bsgs98]

@abendstunde49 I just watched your "Dust on the Moon"; another great depiction of a moon theme.

[henriettadiehl]

nice clip thanks for sharing i enjoyed it =)

[rareboy13]

check out the cab calloway version... not saying it's better but if you liked this you'll love that.

[JCJasion]

"Do I hear a little bit of what would become "Smorgasbord and Schnapps" in the Intro." Ellington was such a fertile musical genius.

[neverknewtillnow]

Exquisite!!!!!!!