Ellington, Duke & His Orchestra: Harlem Throwbacks

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Harlem Throwbacks - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Harlem Throwbacks

Artist:

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

Label:

Squatty Roo Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

686647027503

Genre:

Jazz

Release Date:

2017-09-15

Number of Discs:

1

In the mid 1980s Mercer Ellington, the son of legendary American Composer/Bandleader Duke Ellington made several attempts to get his father's posthumous big band in the studio to record albums in order to stay relevant. While recording in L.A., he employed both East Coast and West Coast nuclei, which were utilized for Mercer's touring band. On Harlem Throwbacks, the focus was to do modern recreations of records made in the Cotton Club days of the late 1920s up to the early 1940s. Several Duke Ellington alumni were present for this outing, such as Harold Minerve, Art Baron, Rocky White, Anita Moore, Barrie Lee Hall, and Chuck Connors. It is quite interesting to hear these classic arrangements re-recorded in digital stereo in 1984.

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