Three different bands appear on this CD, linked (and blessed) by their relationship to Duke Ellington. The first four pieces are by Rex Stewart's Big Seven, a 1940 group that features Stewart's cornet in a front line with the suavely mellifluous trombone of Lawrence Brown and the warmly woody tones of Barney Bigard's clarinet, all kept moving by the great Chicago drummer Dave Tough. Four quartet tracks from a later session feature Stewart with rhythm accompaniment, and they give a more developed introduction to the cornetist's many "talking" effects, as he uses half-valves and mutes to give his horn a human dimension. Two tracks feature an octet led by Jimmy Jones, a pianist and arranger with a fascination for the Duke's music, whose band here has an Ellingtonian cast to both its personnel and style. --Stuart Broomer
Rex Stewart and the Ellingtonians,Rex Stewart and the Ellingtonians,Ojc,Dixieland,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop,Swing
Jazz Music:
- Ron Kearns Live at Montpelier [Live]
- Round Midnight and Other Jazz Classics
- S.E.V.A.
- Shawangunk
- Six Fuchs
- Six String Santa
- Snapshot
- Solid Ground
- Sonny's Crib
- Soul Time [Import]
Jazz Music
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Mendelssohn: Concerto Nos. 1 & 2/Berlioz: Royal Hunt and Storm/Hungarian March
Music: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Fü Kenner und Liebhaber
Music of the Gamelan Gong Kebyar, vol. 1
Louis Spohr: Nonett Op. 31/Oktett Op. 32
Merlin's Leap: Once Upon a Fingerstyle Guitar
The NuYorican Funk Experience, Vol. 2: Further Adventures in Latin Soul