Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
Here is the Alumni Jazz Orchestra perfoming Duke Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder, live at Monroe Hall on the campus of Hofstra University on November 20, 2005. Soloists are Damien Pacheco - trumpet, David Bentley Garfinkel - slide trombone, and Jay Orig on the mysteriuos final pitch.
Channel: Music
Uploaded: March 18, 2008 at 2:24 am
Author: trane1959
Length: 02:04
Rating: 5.00
Views: 626
Tags: duke ellington hofstra jazz mike rubenstein
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trane1959 (September 9, 2008 at 10:22 pm)
thanks for that. Any word on the performance you watched?
chdrapkin (September 9, 2008 at 10:13 pm)
Too bad that only Duke is credited as composer. He worked closely with his arranger, co-composer Billy Strayhorn. According to David Hajdu's excellent biography, "Lush Life", they were under intense time pressure to present this suite. Both Duke and Strayhorn took turns writing the vignettes. I bet we can hear a harmonic difference between some of the pieces. Maybe the Strayhorn Foundation in Pittsburg has some definitive word on which Ellington works were actually written by Strayhorn. |
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