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...Jones had hit the big time, as he was arranging and recording for diverse artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie and Duke Ellington...
...think his sense of arrangement, his work with Count Basie and Duke Ellington...were very thick productions with lots of orchestration," says Lee Mergner, associate publisher of Jazz Times. "But later he was able to bring big band into the pop framework. He is truly one of those musicians who can adjust to the times...
Slatkin, a baseball fan since childhood whose greatest sacrifice in moving to Washington has been giving up his St. Louis Cardinals season tickets, pointedly devoted his entire opening concert to music by such American composers as Bernstein, Howard Hanson and the Washington-born jazz icon Duke Ellington. "Because you are called the National Symphony," he says, "you have an obligation, not just out of a sense of duty but out of real love, to present the music of your own country. We should be thinking of our own repertoire in the same way that the Austrians view Mozart...
...listening classes, however, there is far less room for any discussion of a definitive right and wrong. In fact, it seems that because we will never know precisely what a Dickens or a Tennyson, a Mozart or a Michelangelo, a Hitchcock or an Ellington intended to convey, there is a certain humility inherent to the study of their arts. A premium is placed on digesting as much as possible in the way of opinion and suggestion; yours are as good as mine, and mine no better than hers...
...dance companies and dancing schools alike; now the Brooklyn Academy of Music has come up with a fresh take on the classic: Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker, which tells the story of a grandmother who relives her youthful romance in the great Harlem nightclubs--all to Duke Ellington's jazz-and-gospel-tinged arrangement of Tchaikovsky...