Duke Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige / Harlem, etc
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Label: Naxos - American Classics
Cat No: 8559737
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 28th January 2013
Contents
Works
Black, Brown and Beige (orch. Maurice Peress)Harlem (orch. Maurice Peress)
The River: Suite (arr. Ron Collier)
Three Black Kings (completed by Mercer Ellington)
Take the 'A' train (arr. Duke Ellington)
Artists
Buffalo Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
JoAnn FallettaWorks
Black, Brown and Beige (orch. Maurice Peress)Harlem (orch. Maurice Peress)
The River: Suite (arr. Ron Collier)
Three Black Kings (completed by Mercer Ellington)
Take the 'A' train (arr. Duke Ellington)
Artists
Buffalo Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
JoAnn FallettaAbout
‘Duke’ Ellington wrote some of the twentieth century’s greatest Big Band music, but he also wrote in a variety of forms. The boisterous and evocative Harlem pays tribute to Ellington’s roots, Black, Brown, and Beige sets work songs and spirituals, whilst the suite from The River shows his genius in writing for the stage. Three Black Kings, scored as a ballet, was left unfinished at his death, but shows no lessening of invention.
Ellington’s arrangement of Billy Strayhorn’s Take the ‘A’ Train became famous around the world after the outbreak of World War II, and ranks among the most widely recorded standards of all time.
Duke Ellington’s suites were written for a variety of reasons. The master of Big Band jazz was also a master of tone poems such as the boisterous and evocative Harlem and the African-American-celebrating Black, Brown and Beige. Each piece reflects a facet of his genius, from the early maturity of Harlem to his late, uncompleted Three Black Kings.
JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Virginia Symphony in the United States and Principal Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland. Her Naxos recordings include the double Grammy Award winning disc of works by John Corigliano.
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