Duke Ellington

Artist:  Duke Ellington
Birth Name:  Edward Kennedy Ellington
Born:  April 29, 1899.  Washington, D.C. USA
Died:  May 24, 1974 (Aged 75).  New York City, New York. USA
Genre:  Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Orchestral Jazz, Standards, Modern Big Band, Progressive Jazz
Occupation:  Bandleader, Musician, Composer, Conductor, Songwriter
Instruments: Piano

Duke Ellington was an American Composer, Pianist and Bandleader of a Jazz Orchestra, was based on New York City from the mid-1920s onward together continuously for almost 50 years, and was the most important composer in the history of Jazz.  Some of the musicians who were members of Duke Ellington's Orchestra, such as Saxophonist Johnny Hodges.  He wrote more than one thousand compositions.  He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1999.

Artist:  Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Title:  In Coventry 1966  (2018)
Genre:  Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Orchestral Jazz, Standards, Modern Big Band, Progressive Jazz
Label:  Storyville
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  New World A-Comin'  (9:11)
 2.  Come Sunday  (5:56)
 3.  Light (Montage)  (5:42)
 4.  Come Easter  (3:38)
 5.  Tell Me It's The Truth  (3:22)
 6.  In The Beginning God  (30:38)
 7.  West Indian Pancake  (5:02)
 8.  La Plus Belle Africaine  (12:02)

Personnel:

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra:

Duke Ellington:  Piano, Solo Piano on Track 1

Cat Anderson:  Trumpet
Cootie Williams:  Trumpet
Herbie Jones:  Trumpet
Lawrence Brown:  Trombone
Chuck Connors:  Trombone
Buster Cooper:  Trombone
Jimmy Hamilton:  Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone
Russell Procope:  Alto Saxophone, Clarinet
Johnny Hodges:  Alto Saxophone
Paul Gonsalves:  Tenor Saxophone
Harry Carney:  Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
John Lamb:  Bass
Sam Woodyard:  Drums
George Webb:  Vocals
Cliff Adam:  Vocals

In Coventry 1966 is a live album by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, released on June 22, 2018 by Storyville, recorded live at Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, England on February 21, 1966.