In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

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 o
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