“Rose petals seem to fall,” as Abbey Lincoln ushers in our homage to Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, born 127 Aprils ago. Lean into the Maestro’s magic through orchestral as well as solo recordings. Plus: piano masters Ran Blake and Marian McPartland radically deconstruct Ellington classics. From a Dutch duet for harmonica & steel pan to soprano Jessye Norman’s Weimar-inspired take on music from the Second Sacred Concert, it’s an hour of Ellingtonia like no other! Neil Molloy hosts.
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S O U N D S B Y :
Cedar Walton Quartet, featuring Abbey Lincoln ~ In a Sentimental Mood (The Maestro, Muse Records)
Duke Ellington Orchestra ~ Smada (Blues in Orbit, Columbia)
Duke Ellington ~ A Hundred Dreams Ago (Piano in the Foreground, Columbia)
Ellington Orchestra + Stéphane Grappelli ~ Pretty Little One (Duke Ellington’s Jazz Violin Session, Atlantic)
Benny Bailey Quartet, featuring Wayne Bartlett ~ I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good (I Thought About You, Laika)
fill: David Grisman & Martin Taylor ~ Mood Indigo (Tone Poems II, Acoustic Disc)
Ran Blake ~ Drop Me Off in Harlem (Duke Dreams, Soul Note)
Ran Blake ~ Sophisticated Lady (Duke Dreams, Soul Note)
Hermine Deurloo ~ Fleurette Africaine (Glass Fish, Challenge Records)
Jessye Norman ~ Heaven (Roots: My Life, My Song, Sony Classical)
Marian McPartland ~ C Jam Blues (The Single Petal of a Rose, Concord Jazz)
Duke Ellington ~ The Queen’s Suite: The Single Petal of a Rose (The Ellington Suites, Original Jazz Classics)
Ella Fitzgerald + Ellington Orchestra ~ Azure (Ella at Duke’s Place, Verve)