The CD is "Strayhorn: A Mitchell-Ruff Interpretation - The 50th Anniversary Reissue," on The Kepler Label, with Dwike Mitchell on piano and Willie Ruff on French horn and bass. It includes six standards by [Billy Strayhorn], Duke Ellington's arranger and partner ("Take the A Train," "Chelsea Bridge," "Lush Life" and the like), all of which are interesting and excellently played. Strayhorn died a few months later and Ellington put together a magnificent concert in his honor at Lincoln Center, with Strayhorn compositions played and sung by his friends - Lena Horne and Tony Bennett were on the bill - and the Ellington band. One of the compositions was the "Suite." Ruff remembers it this way: "Strayhorn's powerful presence was there on the stage with us, giving directions, and making us ...
BANGOR -- The Novel Jazz Septet presents "Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn: Sacred & Secular -- A Life Mix," 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, at Husson University's Gracie Theater. The septet has been on a mission to explore the many works of Ellington and Strayhorn through researching original musical manuscripts held in the Smithsonian's Ellington Collection in Washington, D.C. The Gracie show will focus on compositions from both Ellington's sacred concerts as well as a mix of their jazz standards. BANGOR -- Bangor Area Children's Choir auditions for singers ages 9-12 to audition for its Treble Choir, 3-5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, at First Baptist Church, 56 Center St. Part of BACC's two-tiered program, the Treble Choir is designed as a training choir for younger voices. For information, call 9...
This week, I'm sending you to Boothbay Harbor for some jazz, to Bayside Bowl for some classic country and honky-tonk, and to a parking lot in Portland for a fundraising music fest featuring a lively cross-section of local acts. With my toenails freshly painted a sea-foam green, I send you happy late-August sentiments and lots of local music. The Novel Jazz Septet, led by trombonist Barney Balch, is seven hepcats from all over Maine who have been performing together for years. They are huge fans of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, two jazz composers who, between them, wrote more than 3,000 pieces.
The program included the Allegro from Bach's Concerto for Three Violins and Orchestra (BWV 1064), "Perpetual Motion" from the "Lamentations" suite for solo cello by Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, "Invierno Porteno" from "Las Cuatros Estaciones Portenas" by Astor Piazzolla and "La Oracion del Torero" for string quartet by Joaquin Turina. It also included "Ellington Fantasy," which includes "Take the A Train" by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington arranged for string quartet by Paul Chihara. And, to celebrate the 10th annual Sphinx competition, Sphinx commissioned "Delights and Dances" for string quartet and orchestra by Michael Abels, a young African-American composer.
WOOSTER -- Fifty years after Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn recorded their highly acclaimed jazz arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite," the project is finally complete. Jeffrey Lindberg, professor of music at The College of Wooster, recently put the finishing touches on the first-ever authentic transcription of the legendary duo's collaboration. Assembled from the original manuscripts held in the Strayhorn Repository and the Ellington Collection at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Lindberg carefully crosschecked the music with recordings by the original Duke Ellington Orchestra and filled in the gaps.
Despite hard times and recent headlines, the Pittsburgh region has always been especially nourishing to it's artists. At the center of East Liberty's current arts revival is the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, which was the scene of "Celebrate East Liberty II: Fantastic Rhythm," a "historic gathering of East Liberty performers," Aug. 6 and 7. The innovative project was named after the hit 1930's musical review by Duke Ellington's right hand man, Billy Strayhorn, an East Liberty native. The Pittsburgh Courier hailed the original show as a collection of "now, snappy, lively tunes, from fox trots to rumbas by budding musical genius, Strayhorn." The new production evoked a golden time when East Liberty's seven theaters drew diverse, musicians, artists, performers and audiences from every corner of...
This is a tremendous honor from my community, where my mother settled 60 years ago," said [Carmen Vasquez], also a former member of the Young Lords. "This is a community where Puerto Ricane and Blacks came together to support the community. It was the Puerto Ricans who changed the name to "El Barrio. Henderson was one of the first Black students to attend the Juilliard School, where he concentrated on arranging and graduated in 1942. He first collaborated with Duke Ellington on the 1946 Broadway musical "Beggar's Holiday." Henderson's orchestration skills led him to become a favorite collaborator with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Ellington called Henderson his "classical arm." Some of his finest accomplishments were his charts for Ellington's Carnegie Hall concerts. During the ...
Sweets from the Suite -- Nutcracker, that is They're back, and we can smile about it. "They" are the students and faculty of Moving People Dance Theatre, and "it" is their seventh annual Swingin' Suites this weekend. This busy and seasonal take on Tchaikovsky's classic The Nutcracker, created by Moving People founders Ronn Stewart and Layla Amis, features Hayley Manges as Maria Montoya, a young girl living in 19th-century territorial New Mexico. Her Aunt Drosselda, danced by Moving People school director Christin Severini, takes Maria on a wild Christmas trip to other times and dimensions, where she encounters dance styles from swing to contemporary to Spanish folkloric. The score is drawn from Tchaikovksy's original via Glenn Miller, Billy Strayhorn, and Duke Ellington, and participant...
Highlights of the April program included the opening film of the series, "Mickey One" (1965), directed by Arthur Penn, music by Eddie Sauter, with saxophone solos by Stan Getz; "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), with Alex North's Academy Award-nominated score (which is "generally credited with opening up jazz scoring to a new generation of composers including Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Elmer Bernstein and Henry Mancini"); "Paris Blues" (1961), directed by Martin Ritt, music by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn; and "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959), directed by Robert Wise, with music by John Lewis and starring the great Harry Belafonte, Ed Begley and Robert Ryan. The May series began with the always-fascinating "Dangerous Liaisons" (1960), which continues to resonate uniquely for its ...
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