Duke Ellington, After All (Billy Strayhorn)

[eenem13]

Jazz used to be considered rebellious and contra-system. I wonder when they'll start teaching rap in schools...

[slyme1711]

Jazz IS more popular and accesable than ever before. There are universities and conservatoriums teaching the arts of Ellington and all the Jazz giants in every state of every country. I can't stand music bigots comparing the jazz of yesterday with the pop of today. Stop whining and tune into one of the miriade of jazz stations on the net. Folks always ask me why there isn't more Jazz gigs here in OZ and I tell em, "because you don't go to the gigs that are already on !!

[attabuoy]

Yes, that's Hodges. This was part of Ellington's 1963 Paris Concert. The chords Ellington used

when accompanying Hodges were phenomenal!!

[miatababe98]

Who's playing the solo?

[da19lila38]

Possibly Johnny Hodges...

[shrimpy060]

my guess is Johnny Hodges, as he played sax for Duke Ellington all of forty-four years.

[dangervich]

One of the most perfect discs ever recorded along with Gerald Wilson's "Orchestra Portraits", Chas. Mingus' "Black Saint & the Sinner Lady" Catherine Bott's "Mad Songs" and Willie Nelson's "Red-Headed Stanger."

[attabuoy]

Have this on tape but can share this beauty with others.

[PowderSpirit3]

Soooooooo SOULFUL

thankYOU

[purplel123]

Ohhh so beautiful! I gotta get this CD!

[djfakt]

Now THIS is music...Too bad jazz isn't as big as it once was...The shit that is on the radio and t.v. is not even music... Almost all of it is garbage put together by people who couldn't play a damn c-scale.

[attabuoy]

Strayhorn, Duke and Hodges!! That's listening!!