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"Creole Love Call" is a jazz standard, most associated with the Duke Ellington band[1] and Adelaide Hall.[2][3] It entered the Billboard USA song charts in 1928 at No. 29.[4]

"Creole Love Call"
Song by Duke Ellington
Released	1927
Genre	jazz standard
Composer(s)	Duke Ellington

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 article (published 17 December 2020) on the British Library blog titled Oral History of Jazz in Britain.

See also

• List of 1920s jazz standards

Notes

References

• A. H. Lawrence, Duke Ellington and His World (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 112. ISBN 978-0-415-93012-3.
• Williams, Iain Cameron, Underneath A Harlem Moon ... the Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall, Chapter 8. ISBN 0826458939.

External links

• "Creole Love Call" at jazzstandards.com

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