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...The recording opens with Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood” and John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”; flute and double bass dominate the former, the second is a standalone feature for double bass....
...“Everyone will blame Covid [for] the losses,” said John Griffin, a professor at the University of Texas....
...At one of them, Birdland in midtown Manhattan, she saw many of that era’s greats: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Lester Young....
...“Maids”, an affectionate waltz, came next, and then a ballad, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s “Isfahan”, articulated roundly with vibrato and slurs....
...The tune of Shorter’s “Reincarnation Blues” came next, delivered in snippets and made even more oblique, and the percussive angularities of Duke Ellington’s “REM Blues” were captured and developed anew....
...Bassist John Patitucci and drummer Dave Weckl are equal partners throughout this free-flowing, twist-and-turn set....
...“He was one of my heroes,” he says of Ellington, the great African-American bandmaster. The American ambassador had told him Ellington was coming and that they should collaborate. “‘Come on,’ I said....
...He has spent a lifetime exploring and melding influences as disparate as Duke Ellington and Kurt Weill, Hollywood and Rossini, all with a fearless disregard for convention and boundaries....
...It was founded back in 2004 by John McQuown, the inventor of the first index fund; the well-connected American financier David Solo; and Stephen Kealhofer, a cerebral former academic who has devoted much...
...In a tweet, Sir Elton John described him succinctly as “the ultimate drummer”. Watts, son of a lorry driver and a housewife, was born in London in 1941....
...She has also folded in her composition When the World as You’ve Known it Doesn’t Exist along with bits of Beethoven (the Pastoral Symphony) and Duke Ellington....
...(WSJ) Coronavirus, tracked Go behind the scenes with John Burn-Murdoch, creator of the FT’s must-see daily charts tracking the spread of Covid-19, to hear how and why he and colleagues built the tracker...
...The Mass’s obvious antecedents are Duke Ellington’s three Sacred Concerts, but Ellington shied away from actual mass settings in favour of more contemplative meditations....
...The repertoire includes Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady”, “Tickle Toe”, a Basie warhorse, and the mambo-to-swing “Bahia”....
...The spiritual introduction to John Coltrane’s “Crescent” is reconfigured as a trumpet lament, the melody of Duke Ellington’s “Azalea” is firmly delivered by muted trumpet and Abdullah Ibrahim’s boppish “...
...“Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell” came next, with vocalist John Winfield delivering the William Blake words with a gruffed-up blues-rock shout....
...The rich Eric Dolphy discography includes classic sideman sessions with Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, but few recordings under his own name within his own lifetime....
...The influence of Parker’s ideas into the cool school is flagged up by Gerry Mulligan’s piano-free quartet with Chet Baker on Soft Shoe; Miles Davis and John Coltrane represent hard-edged modernism on Trane...
...Later, compositions by Billie Holiday, Calvin Massey and Duke Ellington would reinforce the point....
...Ellington’s “C Jam Blues”, a Mingus favourite, lasts 27 minutes without losing its grip....
...The trio returned for Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady” and an original, “Humpty Dumpty”, from Corea’s concept album The Mad Hatter....
...In the new piece Moran’s long-running Bandwagon trio, bolstered by local reeds and brass, will be augmented by contributions from film-maker John Akomfrah and cinematographer Bradford Young....
...We visit the Westminster festivities of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragón in 1511, where black trumpeter John Blanke blasted his horn on horseback while dressed in royal livery....
...Erdem borrowed from the Windsor wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II — perhaps the ultimate debutante — with dresses inspired by her real-life meeting with jazz legend Duke Ellington....
...A huge, introductory screen shows the artist, young, black and beautiful, dancing to a Duke Ellington soundtrack that fills the Barbican’s echoing double-height galleries....
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