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In August 1956, Duke Ellington and his orchestra were in Canada, performing in the same city as the ongoing Stratford Shakespearean Festival.Curious, Ellington and his longtime composer/arranger Billy Strayhorn talked to festival staffers, and Ellington soon announced his next album project would be a conceptual piece, paying tribute to Shakespeare's varied works with appropriate jazz ...
The Great Paris Concert is a 1973 [2] live double album by jazz pianist Duke Ellington preserving pieces of a series of performances given in Paris during February 1963, a decade prior the release. For the 1989 CD reissue, 10 additional recordings from the same series of Paris concerts were added to the release.
"The Star-Crossed Lovers" – 4:20 "Prelude to a Kiss" (D. Ellington, Strayhorn) – 4:26 "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" – 2:27; Disc Five Duke Ellington and His Orchestra featuring Ella Fitzgerald on all tracks, except track 1. "The Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues" (D. Ellington) – 11:29 "Thou Swell" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart ...
All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated. "In a Sentimental Mood" – 7:07 "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Ellington, Irving Mills) – 5:40 "The Star Crossed Lovers" – 7:16 "The Brown Skin Gal in the Calico Gown" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 7:31 "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 6:28
"The Star-Crossed Lovers" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:54 "Cindy's Tune" – 5:58 "Serenity" (Joe Henderson) – 6:27 "Elusive" (Thad Jones) – 7:15 "I've Just Seen Her" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) – 7:17 "Punjab" (Henderson) – 4:05 "Verdandi" (Tommy Flanagan) – 3:57
In 2001, the band recorded "Star Crossed Lovers" with Martha Wainwright for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease. In October 2003, Wall of Sound commemorated its tenth birthday.
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) [1] was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades.
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4½ stars and stated ""In the Uncommon Market," of course, refers to Europe, where Norman Granz caught the Ellington band numerous times with his tape machines in the 1960s. But it could also refer to the unusual repertoire featured on this collection."