The "friend" turned out to be pianist and composer Neil Ardley and the arrangement was of Duke Ellington's "In a Mellow Tone".
Franchot Tone | Tone Lōc | Tone | River Tone | Ringback tone | Mellow | In a Mellow Tone | Yasunao Tone | Wolfe Tone | Wild Thing (Tone Lōc song) | Tony! Toni! Tone! | Tone River | tone (linguistics) | ''Tone'' | tone | Muscle tone | Mellow Yellow | Have You Never Been Mellow (song) | Have You Never Been Mellow | Webern's ''String Quartet'' Op. 28 tone row, composed of three tetrachord | Tone Soul Evolution | tone row | Tone Mason | Tone Dale House | Tone Åse | Songs in a Mellow Mood | Mellow Mushroom | Mellow (Maria Mena album) | Mellow Gold | II Tone Committee |
Coleman Hawkins - material together from sessions dating between 1958 and 1962 in the In a Mellow Tone (1988).