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Fifty years at the head of one orchestra, from the Cotton Club to the cathedrals.

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Duke Ellington
New York, USA

Record Box

What’s On

  1. OCT27Tuesday

    Black, Brown and Beige

    Carnegie HallNew York

    Tickets

  2. NOV18Wednesday

    Newport Jazz Festival

    Fort Adams State ParkNewport

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  3. DEC10Thursday

    A Concert of Sacred Music

    Grace CathedralSan Francisco

  4. JAN 20271Friday

    Take the “A” Train

    Apollo TheaterNew York

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What They Say

  • I know of nothing in Ravel so dextrous in treatment as the varied solos in the middle of the ebullient Hot and Bothered and nothing in Stravinsky more dynamic than the final section.

    Constant LambertMusic Ho! A Study of Music in Decline, 1934

  • Now there, to me, is the most perfect band in existence.

    Clare FischerDownBeat, 19 October 1967, on “Agra” from the Far East Suite

  • He just seems to have a sixth sense about things turning out so good.

    Louie BellsonDownBeat, “Blindfold Test”, around 1964

Bookings

Sixteen players, for concert halls, festivals, dances and cathedrals. Tell us the hall, the date and the occasion; we answer within the week.