In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane video free download
Beautiful tune performed by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in 1962, to a small pictire-video of mine.
According to Ellington, the song was born in Durham, North Carolina.
"We had played a big dance in a tobacco warehouse, and afterwards a friend of mine, an executive in the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, threw a party for us. I was playing piano when another one of our friends had some trouble with two chicks. To pacify them, I composed this there and then, with one chick standing on each side of the piano."
Ellington composed the piece in 1935 and recorded it with his orchestra the same year. Lyrics were later written for the tune by Irving Mills and Manny Kurtz.
The song uses a technique called contrapuntal or chromatic embellishment of static harmony. A "line cliché".
This is the best-known version of the song, and is featured on "Duke Ellington and John Coltrane" and "Coltrane for Lovers".
Comments
6 years ago
Hudson Fredricks
DAMNIT MAC MILLER7 years ago
In The SHADOW Of The SUN
Simply Beautiful Miles and John just Timeless RomanticPoetic Musician's!!Incredible7 years ago
Oscar Quiroga
sublime momento!!!7 years ago
Stefanie Collins
Real music... mellow and smooth...8 years ago
MemphisConservative
I can just close my eyes & imagine my Dad listening to this with a nice glass of good single malt Scotch or Blanton's Bourbon (neat, OF COURSE) & reading a good book. And I have certainly carried on his tradition, since I do the same thing myself. Or sometimes, after a hard night in the kitchen of my restaurant, this is what soothes my "savage beast"! Timeless, flawless & a whole lotta OTHER adjectives I could use to describe this!8 years ago
Fatina Deifiori
Ciao ♪mbO :))8 years ago
bravaLiz
T-H-E BEST!8 years ago
John DeCelles
haha rap Diablo8 years ago
Stephanie Pearson
I love this tune...9 years ago
Camille Carvalho
sublime..9 years ago
Ari'ze Woman
Awesome music.9 years ago
240p the Producer
Mac Miller9 years ago
Kenneth Washington
Love this song!9 years ago
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ohh felly10 years ago
Adam P
I always picture an old Black&White Private Eye murder mystery with a first-person narrator voice-over.10 years ago
steven knapp
Coltrane is just about as good as it gets, and with Duke...Sentimental Mood is one of the greatest...ever. I remember it being used in an episode of the Cosby Show! :-)10 years ago
mel Lhoste
Beauuuuuuu !10 years ago
virgil015
Absolutely brilliant. Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. What a combination. Too bad they didn't record more together. I think the team up is a pure natural and accentuates both talents.Related Videos
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