Joshua Redman & Stevie Wonder perform Duke Ellington tribute

Joshua Redman and Stevie Wonder perform a Duke Ellington tribute backed by the Harold Wheeler Big Band. Joshua plays "Caravan" and "It Don't Mean a Thing", and then Stevie joins for his own tune "Sir Duke". This was broadcast on ABC in December of 1996.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Joshua
• Redman
• Stevie
• Wonder
• Duke
• Ellington
• jazz
• Caravan

[lukagerm]

Who's the guy at 3:03 ?

[leoshephard]

Quincy Jones

[vanjanjan]

the best musicians and then thoose dancers..... Let them stay at home next time

[glaze212003]

Nice! And the dancers are kind of cheesy, sure, but Charleston, Lindy Hop, etc, were a big part of the Ellington venue back in the day. We tend to forget about the whole dancing thing these days. Although a bunch of white folks in glittery costumes doing ballet twirls does make me cringe a little.

[shningrose]

it was the dancers who really made that performance good

[magnus0408]

Ele canta muito!!!

[H3drummer]

I think this is what Joshua meant by Jazz Crimes when he saw those dancers...

[nonsimplesimon]

i was worried one of those dancers was going to crash into redman

[fefovecchia]

awesome tenor sax playing! 

[redsox14048]

@Usersname1983 yeah because thats the only way he could sell his music by posing it as "black jungle music" which he quickly left once he was famous.

[Usersname1983]

@redsox14048 Actually, he probably did use dancers during the period he worked at the Cotton Club.

[redsox14048]

theres a reason duke never used dancers....

[dcdrum1]

the dancing is cool