"Azure" is a 1937 song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills.Jazz Standards website The composition is an example of Ellington's early use of bi- and polytonality, and some parts of it are almost atonal in nature.
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
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