“Mood Indigo” is a jazz standard composed in 1930 by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard, who played with Ellington’s band for 15 years. The lyrics are by Irving Mills.

Mood Indigo feels like music in motion (and, in fact, takes its title and main character's name from Duke Ellington compositions). When you have underwater weddings and rubber-legged dancers ...

In this extravaganza, they pay tribute to “the late, great Duke Ellington” with a performance of Mood Indigo. ... Composed in 1930s, the soul-filled lyrics were written by Irving Mills.

Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo” was heralded at the time of its 1930 release for its “upside down” jazz arrangement, where muted instruments were played at an opposite pitch than as ...

The Oscar winning French filmmaker sat down with Marlow Stern to discuss his latest surrealist picture, Mood Indigo , behind-the-scenes tales from the making of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless ...

“Mood Indigo” was adapted by Gondry and co-writer Luc Bossi from a 1947 surrealist-influenced novel by Boris Vian, a writer, musician, critic, ...