Sophisticated Lady

Sophisticated Lady

"Sophisticated Lady" is a jazz standard, composed as an instrumental in 1932 by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills, to which words were added by Mitchell Parish. The words met with approval from Ellington, who described them as "wonderful — but not entirely fitted to my original conception."

That original conception was inspired by three of Ellington's grade school teachers. "They taught all winter and toured Europe in the summer. To me that spelled sophistication."

External links

* [http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/sophisticatedlady.htm "Sophisticated Lady" at jazzstandards.com]
* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21943 Who Was Duke's Sophisticated Lady?]


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