Recording: Mood Indigo

Performed by

Red Nichols

Recording date

September 7, 1956

First release

On Audio album Hot Pennies (1957)

Comments

Instrumental

Rating

Song info

Song

Mood Indigo

Music written by

Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard

Lyrics written by

Irving Mills

First recording

Mood Indigo by The Jungle Band (October 17, 1930)

Language

English

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Mood Indigo	The Jungle Band	1930
2	Mood Indigo	Clyde McCoy and His Orchestra	1931
3	Mood Indigo	The Three Keys	September 1932
4	Mood Indigo	Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra	1934
5	Mood Indigo	Paul Robeson	1937
6	Mood Indigo	Rice Brothers Gang	August 1938
7	Mood Indigo	Børge Roger Henrichsen og hans kvintet med kor	1944
8	Mood Indigo	Four Blazes	March 1952
9	Mood Indigo	The Norman Petty Trio	May 1954
10	Mood Indigo	Billy Eckstine - Orchestra Conducted by Lou Bring	1954
11	Mood Indigo	Frank Sinatra	April 1955
12	Mood Indigo	Thelonious Monk	1955
13	Mood Indigo	Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington and his Orchestra	May 21, 1956
14	Mood Indigo	Don Elliott	1956
15	Mood Indigo	Russell Procope	1956
16	Mood Indigo	Della Reese	1957
17	Mood Indigo	Cleo Laine	1957
18	Mood Indigo	Chris Barber	1957
19	Mood Indigo	Ella Fitzgerald	1957
20	Mood Indigo	Red Nichols	1957
21	Mood Indigo	Morton Gould	1957
22	Mood Indigo	Nina Simone	1958
23	Mood Indigo	Johnny Smith	December 1959
24	Mood Indigo	Kurt Edelhagen und Sein Orchester	1959
25	Mood Indigo	Perry Como	1959
26	Mood Indigo	Gary Crosby	1959
27	Mood Indigo	Tremble Kids	1959
28	Mood Indigo	Calvin Jackson	1959
29	Mood Indigo	Roy Hamilton	1959
30	Mood Indigo	Andy and the Bey Sisters	1960
31	Mood Indigo	Chris Barber's Jazz Band	1962
32	Mood Indigo	Tricky Lofton and Carmell Jones with the Arrangements of Gerald Wilson	1962
33	Mood Indigo	David Rose and His Orchestra	1962
34	Mood Indigo	Peter Nero	1962
35	Mood Indigo	Julius Watkins	1962
36	Mood Indigo	Joe Pass Featuring Clare Fischer	1963
37	Mood Indigo	Shirley Scott	1963
38	Mood Indigo	Maxim Saury and His 3 Dimensial Band	1963
39	Mood Indigo	Roland Kirk	1964
40	Mood Indigo	Les and Larry Elgart	1964
41	Mood Indigo	Morris Nanton	1965
42	Mood Indigo	The Jim Kweskin Jug Band	1967
43	Mood Indigo	Jim Cullums' Happy Jazz with Bobby Hackett	1967
44	Mood Indigo	Urbie Green and Twenty of the World's Greatest	1968
45	Mood Indigo	Pino Calvi	December 1972
46	Mood Indigo	Ceres Band	1973
47	Mood Indigo	Oscar Klein and Orchestra	1973
48	Mood Indigo	George Chisholm	1973
49	Mood Indigo	Kenny Burrell	1975
50	Mood Indigo	Carol Sloane	1977
51	Mood Indigo	Kenny Davern & Flip Phillips	1978
52	Mood Indigo	Terri Klausner	1981
53	Mood Indigo	John Eaton	1982
54	Mood Indigo	Jonathan and Darlene Edwards	1982
55	Mood Indigo	Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass	1983
56	Mood Indigo	Acker Bilk	1983
57	Mood Indigo	Jimmy Mazzy	1984
58	Mood Indigo	Teresa Brewer	1984
59	Mood Indigo	Carl Kress and George Barnes	1984
60	Mood Indigo	Patti Austin	1988
61	Mood Indigo	Frank Morgan	November 1989
62	Mood Indigo	The Jody Grind	1990
63	Mood Indigo	Marcus Roberts	1991
64	Mood Indigo	Al Grey	1991
65	Mood Indigo	The Butch Thompson Trio	1992
66	Mood Indigo	Charlie Rich	1992
67	Mood Indigo	Chicago Six	1992
68	Mood Indigo	Carrie Smith	1993
69	Mood Indigo	Joe Sample	1993
70	Mood Indigo	Jessica Williams	1994
71	Mood Indigo	The Fred Hersch Trio	1994
72	Mood Indigo	Leroy Jones	1995
73	Mood Indigo	Patty Waters	1996
74	Mood Indigo	Claude Williams	1996
75	Mood Indigo	Slim Dusty	April 11, 1997
76	Mood Indigo	Scott Robinson [1]	1997
77	Mood Indigo	Marty Grosz Quartet	1997
78	Mood Indigo	Ballin' the Jack [1]	1999
79	Mood Indigo	Altered States	1999
80	Mood Indigo	Joe Jackson	May 6, 2000
81	Mood Indigo	Cynthia Kaay Bennett	2001
82	Mood Indigo	Emilie-Claire Barlow	2001
83	Mood Indigo	Willard White	2002
84	Mood Indigo	Jackie Ryan	2002
85	Mood Indigo	Clare Teal	2004
86	Mood Indigo	Jed Levy Quintet	September 2005
87	Mood Indigo	Kellylee Evans	September 2010