Duke Ellington and his Orchestra is perhaps the greatest of all Jazz bands.… Read Full Bio ↴Duke Ellington and his Orchestra is perhaps the greatest of all Jazz bands. The group stayed together for over fifty years and recorded and wrote some of America's greatest music. The band started in New York City under name of the Washingtonians in 1923, they then briefly became known as Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra, then as Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra from 1927 to 1930. It was through weekly radio broadcasts from the Cotton Club that the orchestra gained nationwide exposure and became famous. After 1931 the band was billed as Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.
Diminuendo In Blue
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Christopher Billings
I was there. by myself, 18 years old. I sat in the middle of right field. When Paul Gonsalves was blowing the crowd was jumping, literally. All I could hear was Gonsalves and the crowd. I could not hear Duke Ellington or the drummer. It was like that until the whole band started the Crescendo. The whole crowd was excited. At the end of the Crescendo a nervous George Wein came out but Duke shut him up. The band played another hour, ending with Skin Deep. It was my most treasured memory.
Jorge Sanabria
Amazing. Seems we are all in the concert.
ClockedTXX
nice
Miguel Le Goff
Chistopher thank you! It will be amazing if you write the hole experience!!! Do you remember if a girl with a dress get up in the middle of the solo and start to dance??
Michael Scott
Jay Looney I love your spirit!
Eric Vaughn Hutchins
My mother and father attended. I was eight years old and they had sent me off to sleepaway camp so they could have some time together after my father had been called to fly the Berlin Airlift in 1948 and tactical air support in Korea. My father had just made Major and he and his wife drove to Newport from Westover AFB in his 1954 coral blue and cream white Cadillac Coupe de Ville. I wish they had taken me. I listened to the record many times when my father was still alive, and after. I purchased the stereo version released on CD not too long ago. Amazing moment in music.
wildsmiley
To me, this is the perfect track to introduce someone to jazz, especially to those who may think of jazz as boring and pretentious. This performance swings harder and more gloriously than anybody has ever swung before or since.
Walter B
You may be right
mrstep2me
The problem is, this is what Jazz was when it was America's popular music. Unfortunately, it's not what Jazz is now. What Jazz is now has a limited appeal for the masses, especially the youth, who want music to party to, not music to listen to.
D.E.B. B
+mrstep2me This is music to party to. Today's jazz, OTOH, is usually what sounds like several guys all playing a different song. As one jazz performer said, 'I don't like playing in a band, because it's too hard; you have to follow and perfect someone else's song; I like to let it all hang out and play what I want to play'. And that pretty much says it all; no one wants to play someone else's idea of music. They all think they're friggin geniuses. And today's jazz fans are mostly music snobs, who look down on us who don't like bebop and fusion because we 'don't get it'. There's time for solo performances, and there's time to follow the music. And it seemed that from about 1950 on, most just want to jam to their own song; no one wants to be 'just' part of a great band.