“Prelude to a Kiss,” Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, and Irving Mills., 1938.
“Prelude to a Kiss,” Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, and Irving Mills., 1938.
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“Prelude to a Kiss,” Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, and Irving Mills., 1938.
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It’s hard to beat the line “A Schubert tune with a Gershwin touch.”
As Ted Gioia puts it in The Jazz Standards, “Prelude to a Kiss” is typical of what Ellington did at the height of his success, writing songs that “defy almost every rule of the music business, or even the jazz tradition, aspiring rather to some new aesthetic standards of Ellington’s own creation.”