Duke Ellington - Cotton Club Stomp #2

Duke Ellington became one of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music, and is largely recognized as one of the greatest figures in the history of jazz, though his music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, movie soundtracks, popular, and classical. His career spanned five decades and comprised of leading his orchestra, an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies and world tours. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and in part to his refined public manner and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an artistic level on par with that of classical music. His reputation increased after his death, and he received a special award citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1999

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Music

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• Duke
• Ellington
• Cotton
• Club
• Stomp
• #2

[clintonday2001]

Yeah this band from the movie was killing! Very hard to find sound track...

[MrVicfontaine]

absolutely enthralling!

[Rowland108]

1939 original. Lovely stuff

[michaeljayklein]

Thank you for posting this arrangement that was used in "The Cotton Club"! I have the sound track from the movie and in my opinion, the Ellington songs used in this film are among the most absolutely authentic sounding of any period film. Even the style of clarinet used here, and the "coconut shell" percussion used near the end are spot on--brilliant work!

[cheeseisgood345]

man, thanks so much for posting this. i needed this song for my history project. many thanks! :D

[MrPetepohl1]

This, TAKE 2 is by far the better one.

I have been listening to it it for MANY years now.

THANKS or Posting it!