DUKE ELLINGTON: Newport Jazz Festival Suite

DUKE ELLINGTON: Newport Jazz Festival Suite

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Music

Tags:

• jazz
• duke
• ellington
• newport
• festival
• big
• bang

[antonnina]

@adlbdi QUE IDIOTEZ 

[adlbdi]

Algunas parecen angeles, y yo solo veo desnudos, no hay fornicación y por lo tanto son bellos desnudos de mujer.

[antonnina]

ME GUSTA LA MUSICA PERO QUE CARAJOS SON ESAS PUTAS QUE APARECEN AL FINAL QUE CARAJOS TIENEN QUE VER CON EL JAZZ?????????????

[EcoPurpleConverse]

this is what you call AWESOME! :)

[eddythefan]

JAZZ HEAVEN ^_^

[kingorthy]

What's amazing is that "big band" music was long out of style when Ellington and his orchestra made this appearance, and it was considered something of a comeback for him--even though he had never stopped writing, performing and being America's most important living composer.

[caponsacchi]

@LittleBrother42 Those 3 trombone players are so tight and solid they're like a kinetic drill team with those whip-lashing riffs in the background. How can you listen to this music and sit still?

[caponsacchi]

@BonefidePsychonaut Duke's pyrotechnician in the trombone section was Britt Woodman, who went with Toshiko Akiyoshi's big band after Duke's death. Quentin Butter Jackson was the last of a long line of plunger trombonists, beginning with Tricky Sam Nanton. The stratospheric trumpet solo at the end is Cat Anderson. His most identifiable trombone voice was Lawrence Brown, who wasn't with the band at this time but would rejoin them. This piece preceded the first riot in outsde music festivals.

[caponsacchi]

Why naked bodies and music? Naked women (toss in a few nude men, for Strayhorn) were simply more of the beautiful things that had everything to do with his music. He started at the Cotton Club in the 20s, comparing Harlem to heaven in "Drop Me Off in Harlem." Close to 50 years later he found his Swedish angel and teamed her up with his most famous orchestra member, Johnny Hodges. (Look up "Heaven," with Duke, Alice Babs, and Hodges on youtube.) He was America's greatest creative artist.

[twanghang]

I OD'd on this record in high school in the '70s. thanks for posting!