Satin Doll

Подробности

really note-for-note jazz piano, bass, drums, sax transcriptions

"Satin Doll" is a famous jazz standard written by Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington , and Billy Strayhorn . Written in 1953, the song has been recorded countless times, by such famous singers as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Wilson. The song was originally written in the key of C, but like all standards is transposed frequently to suit the singer's range. Johnny Mercer, regarded as one of America's greatest songwriters (in the early 1940s, he was one of the co-founders of Capitol Records), was often asked to write lyrics to already popular songs;the lyrics to "Satin Doll" were written after the song was already a hit in its instrumental version. It's commonly believed that the music ( Mercer's contributions was just lyric-wise) was not composed by the Duke himself but by the pianist Billy Strayhorn, who joined Ellington's band in 1939, at the age of 22 (He also composed another worldwide famous jazz standard, "Take The 'A' Train "). Later on Ellington arranged the music part and shared the credits.