"Creole Love Call" is a
jazz standard, most associated with the
Duke Ellington band and
Adelaide Hall. It entered the ''
Billboard'' USA song charts in 1928 at No. 29.
USA song chart entry
for "Creole Love Call" (1928).
In 1988, during a radio interview with the journalist and radio host Max Jones, Hall explained how she came up with the counter-melody in "Creole Love Call". An excerpt from the interview can be heard in the British Library
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article (published 17 December 2020) on the British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...
blog title
''Oral History of Jazz in Britain''
See also
*List of 1920s jazz standards
Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by jazz artists as part of the genre's musical repertoire. This list includes compositions written in the 1920s that are considered standards by at least one m ...
Notes
References
* A. H. Lawrence, ''Duke Ellington and His World'' (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 112. .
* Williams, Iain Cameron
''Underneath A Harlem Moon ... the Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall''
Chapter 8. .
External links
at jazzstandards.com
1927 songs
Jazz compositions
1920s jazz standards
Cab Calloway songs
Songs with music by Billy Strayhorn
Songs with music by Duke Ellington
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