"Creole Love Call" is a 1927jazz standard byDuke Ellington,Bubber Miley and Rudy Jackson.^[1] The song is associated with vocalistAdelaide Hall.^[2][3] The song entered theBillboard USA song charts in 1928 at No. 19.^[4]

In 1988, during a radio interview with the journalist and radio hostMax Jones, Hall explained how she came up with the counter-melody in "Creole Love Call". An excerpt from the interview can be heard in theBritish Library article (published 17 December 2020) on theBritish Library blog titledOral History of Jazz in Britain.

• List of 1920s jazz standards

• 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.

• "Creole Love Call" at jazzstandards.com

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