Meanwhile please enjoy this JAZZ RHYTHM programming:
These JAZZ RHYTHM tributes to Duke Ellington feature outstanding Ducal performances from 78 rpm discs, a recently restored STEREO recording from 1932, and some of the finest recent Trad Jazz bands performing Ellington's music: New Black Eagles, Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band, and Tomas Ornberg’s Blue Five.
Besides Ellington recordings ranging from 1929 to the early 1970s you will hear the recollections of Mercer Ellington, and of Rex Stewart and the Duke read by actors Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, and voice actor Joe Hughes.
Part 3 features the more impressionistic, symphonic and experimental recordings of Ellington from later years.
Part 4 focuses on such stellar Ellingtonians as saxist, Ben Webster; triple-threat man Ray Nance playing trumpet, violin and singing; and Mercer Ellington's recollections of bassist Wellman Braud.
