Duke Ellington, Duke - And His Mother Called Him Bill (Speakers Corner 180g LP)
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Description
New Factory Sealed 180gr Vinyl from Speakers Corner (European Release)
Artist: Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington & Orchestra
Title: And His Mother Called Him Bill
Item Condition: New and unplayed
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 2013
Label: Speakers Corner
UPC: 4260019712301
Genre: Big Band
Album Tracks
DISC 1:
1. Sinbor
2. Boo Dah
3. Blood Count
4. U.M.M.G
5. Charpoy
6. After All
DISC 2:
1. The Intamacy of the Blues
2. Rain Check
3. Day Dream
4. Rock Skippin' at the Blue Not
5. All Day Long
6. Lotus Blossom
When Billy Strayhorn died of cancer in 1967, Duke Ellington was devastated. His closest friend and arranger had left his life full of music and memories. As a tribute, Ellington and his orchestra almost immediately began recording a tribute to Strayhorn, using the late arranger's own compositions. The album features well-known and previously unrecorded Strayhorn tunes that showcase his range, versatility, and, above all, the quality that Ellington admired him most for: his sensitivity to all of the timbral, tonal, and color possibilities an orchestra could bring to a piece of music.Full of informality and soulful verve, these recordings feel like they are an afterthought, an unwillingness to completely let go, a eulogy whose final words are questions, elegantly stated and met with only the echo of their last vibrations ringing in an empty room, full of wondering, longing, and helplessness, but above all the point of the questions themselves:.
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