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...DUKE ELLINGTON NEVER NO LAMENT: THE BLANTON-WEBSTER BAND...
...wasalready a superb band, featuring such Ellington stalwarts as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Juan Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...
...before his death, and though Berger doesn’t “see them as Ellington’s greatest work,” he acknowledged that “there is a lot of really good music in it.” Everett explained that in 1965, Ellington wrote the music for St. Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. “It’s non-denominational, but it combines the love one has for a master being with the individual creativity of jazz,” he said.Hendricks said he recalls talking with Ellington about the piece...
...available through Ticketmaster. $10. (MFK)Saturday, Dec. 10thChristmas on the Common. The Radcliffe Choral Society presents their annual Christmas concert. First Church Congregational. 8 p.m. $16 general admission, $8 students. (CNC)“Such Sweet Thunder.” The Harvard Jazz Band performs the music of Duke Ellington with guest artist Don Byron. Lowell Lecture Hall. 8 p.m. $10 general admission, $7 students. (CNC)Comedy For A Cause Stand-Up Comedy Night. The Harvard Concert Commission brings you a night of stand-up comedy to benefit the victims of the South Asian earthquake. Comics scheduled to perform include...
...jazzman. Few choose to specialize in the clarinet. Few modern jazz artists are unafraid to be explicitly political; Byron routinely gives his compositions titles like “(The press made) Rodney King (responsible for the LA riots).” Fewer still cite influences ranging from Duke Ellington and klezmer legend Mickey Katz to rap label Sugar Hill Records and the Afro-Cuban rhythmic tradition. “These are all types of music that I’ve always been interested in,” he says. “It’s great that...