Ethan Teaches You Music Podcast

Sonnymoon for Two

Music in this episode: Sonny Rollins - “Sonnymoon For Two” (1958) Sonny Rollins - “Sonnymoon for Two” (1958) Charles Mingus - “Mood Indigo” (1960) Charles Mingus - “Jelly Roll” (1959) Melvin Bliss - “Synthetic Substitution” (1973) Miles Davis - “Oleo” (1954) Miles Davis - “Doxy” (1954) Sonny Rollins - “St Thomas” (1957) George Symonette - “Sponger Money” (1957) Here’s a chart of my “Sonnymoon for Two” reharmonization [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2d8ysn6k3miin90y1a8l5/Sonnymoon-for-Two-harmonized.mscz?rlkey=8xpqswpwbskdtvmq7fqvlllqg&dl=0] - I put chord symbols on as many chords as I could, though some of them defy analysis. Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

You ain't been blue

Music in this episode: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - “Mood Indigo” (1950) The Harlem Footwarmers - “Mood Indigo” (1930) The Boswell Sisters - “Mood Indigo” (1933) Thelonious Monk - “Mood Indigo” (1955) James Brown - “The Funky Drummer” (1970) Diverse - “Move” (2001) Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington - “Mood Indigo” (1956) Ella Fitzgerald - “Mood Indigo” (1957) Charles Mingus - “Mood Indigo” (1960) Sonny Rollins - “Sonnymoon For Two” (1958) Charles Mingus - “Jelly Roll” (1959) Charles Mingus - “Mood Indigo” (1964) Nina Simone - “Mood Indigo” (1959) Nina Simone - “Mood Indigo” (1966) The Singers Unlimited - “Mood Indigo” (1976) Meat Beat Manifesto - “It’s The Music” (1996) Abdullah Ibrahim - “Way Way Back” (1981) Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - “Take the A Train” (1941) Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - “Black and Tan Fantasy” (1927) See Tyree Glenn play growl trombone on the BBC - at one point, Louis Armstrong yells from off mic, “Watch your language!” References A lot of the background in this episode comes from a grad school paper I wrote about Duke Ellington and formal music education [https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2017/duke-ellington-percy-grainger-and-the-status-of-jazz-in-the-academy/] Björn Heile - “Who Wrote Duke Ellington’s Music? Authorship and Collective Creativity in ‘Mood Indigo’ [https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/edcoll/9781783478187/9781783478187.00010.xml]” Fred Moten - In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts6jk] RD Darrell - “Black Beauty” - in M. Tucker (Ed.), The Duke Ellington Reader [http://google.com/search?q=The+Duke+Ellington+Reader&udm=14] Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

You can feel it all over

Music in this episode: Stevie Wonder - “Sir Duke” (1976) Duke Ellington - “Mood Indigo” (1950) Count Basie - “One O’Clock Jump” (1937) Glenn Miller - “In the Mood” (1939) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” (1956) Duke Ellington - “The New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo” (1956) Ella Fitzgerald - “How High The Moon?” (1960) Ohio Players - “Love Rollercoaster” (1975) Duke Ellington - “Cottontail” (1940) Fats Domino - “Blueberry Hill” (1956) Kings Return - “Sir Duke” (2024) A Tribe Called Quest - “Footprints” (1990) The Reflex - “Sir Duke [The Reflex VIP Revision - 7inch Version]” (2012) References Adam Neely discusses the “Sir Duke” chord Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Blackbird singing in the dead of night

Music in this episode: The Beatles - “Blackbird” (1968) Paul McCartney on Parkinson (2005) JS Bach - Bourée from Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 performed by Andres Segovia (c. 1708-1717) The Beatles - “Mother Nature’s Son” (1968) Paul McCartney & Wings - “Bluebird” (1973) Paul McCartney - “Jenny Wren” (2005) Brad Mehldau - “Blackbird” (2021) Billy Preston - “Blackbird” (1972) Crosby, Stills & Nash - “Blackbird” (1983) The Swingle Singers - “Blackbird/I Will” (2021) Beyoncé - “BLACKBIIRD” (2024) The Beatles - “I Am The Walrus” (1967) Brad Mehldau - “I Am The Walrus” (2023) For background on the writing and recording of “Blackbird”, I drew on A History of Rock Music In 500 Songs [https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-171-hey-jude-by-the-beatles/]. Bonus track from my most recent podcast episode: a mashup of most of the songs in the episode plus beats sampled from “Be Black, Baby” by Grady Tate and “Dreaming About You” by Blackbyrds Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

I taught the weeping willow how to cry

Music in this episode: Johnny Cash - “Big River” (1958) Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - “Big River” (1969) Johnny Cash - “A Boy Named Sue” (1969) Woody Guthrie - “The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done” (1946) Grateful Dead - “Big River” (1975) Grateful Dead - “Truckin’” (1970) Quotes are from Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Modern_Song] Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe [https://ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]