Duke Ellington
Black, Brown, and Beige
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, Conductor
Naxos 8.559737 (2013)
The Naxos American Classics series is an exceptional undertaking by the world's best-selling classical music label. Today we celebrate the birth of the All-American jazz and classical composer, pianist and bandleader Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington on April 29, 1899. He passed away in 1974, nearly four decades ago, but the stream of new recordings of his works flows unabated.
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's new disc is
particularly meaningful to us. Duke Ellington is featured as a
Composer of African Descent at AfriClassical.com because of two works
on the Naxos CD, Harlem
(14:27) and Suite
from 'The River'
(21:04). Both were recorded on the Chandos label in 1993 by the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Neeme Järvi. Those two works confirmed for us that Duke Ellington had been a classical composer long before a recording of either composition became commercially available.
Browsing through AfriClassical posts of recent months, we found these recent examples of the continuing musical legacy of Duke Ellington:
The Naxos American Classics series is an exceptional undertaking by the world's best-selling classical music label. Today we celebrate the birth of the All-American jazz and classical composer, pianist and bandleader Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington on April 29, 1899. He passed away in 1974, nearly four decades ago, but the stream of new recordings of his works flows unabated.
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's new disc is
particularly meaningful to us. Duke Ellington is featured as a
Composer of African Descent at AfriClassical.com because of two works
on the Naxos CD, Harlem
(14:27) and Suite
from 'The River'
(21:04). Both were recorded on the Chandos label in 1993 by the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Neeme Järvi. Those two works confirmed for us that Duke Ellington had been a classical composer long before a recording of either composition became commercially available.
Browsing through AfriClassical posts of recent months, we found these recent examples of the continuing musical legacy of Duke Ellington:
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