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Duke Ellington: Blues In Orbit - Jazz Journal

In 1958 and 1959 an Ellington orchestra including Johnny Hodges and Ray Nance produced 13 relaxed and engaging variations on the blues

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Duke Ellington & Mahalia Jackson: Black, Brown And Beige

Vinyl reissue of the 1958 version again confirms that cutting several sections of the original 1943 suite was a bad idea

Why today's musicians are getting Gershwin's masterpiece wrong

At the turn of 1924, all of musical New York was agog at the prospect of an “Experiment in Modern Music”. The venue was the exceedingly plush Aeolian Hall, and the famous Paul Whiteman Band was performing. It wasn’t quite the first experiment in combining jazz and classical music – Whiteman had recently caused a stir by mingling songs from modernist composers such as Schoenberg, Milhaud and Bartok with jazz songs by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern and Gershwin.

Rhapsody in Blue at 100: who is getting Gershwin's masterpiece wrong

We must give up on authenticity and encourage pianists and conductors to play fast and loose with the score, the way they used to