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(Visually Graded) Vinyl looks Near Mint and sleeve looks EX. See pics and info for details.

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Duke Ellington Orchestra: Such Sweet Thunder

Label:    Philips – B 07.278 L
Format:    12", Import, 33rpm, Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono
Country:    France
Released:    1959

Genre:    Jazz
Style:    Swing / Big Band, Cool Jazz

Tracklist

A1        Such Sweet Tunder
A2        Sonnet For Caesar
A3        Sonnet To Hank Cinq
A4        Lady Mac
A5        Sonnet In Search Of A Moor
A6        The Telecasters
B1        Up And Down, Up And Down (I Will Lead Them Up And Down)
B2        Sonnet For Sister Kate
B3        The Star-crossed Lovers
B4        Madness In Great Ones
B5        Half The Fun
B6        Circle Of Fourths

Notes

    Bass – Jimmy Wood
    Composed By – Billy Strayhorn
    Drums – Sam Woodyard
    Piano, Composed By – Duke Ellington
    Saxophone – Harry Carney, Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Russel Procope*
    Trombone – Britt Woodman, John Sanders, Quentin Jackson
    Trumpet – "Cat" Anderson*, Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Willie Cook

- bio - In August 1956, Duke Ellington and his orchestra were in Canada, performing in the same city as the ongoing Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Curious, Ellington and his longtime composer/arranger Billy Strayhorn talked to festival staffers, and Ellington soon announced his next album project would be a conceptual piece, paying tribute to Shakespeare's varied works with appropriate jazz compositions.

 In addition to the Such Sweet Thunder album, he promised the entire suite would be performed at the 1957 edition of the festival. Ellington and Strayhorn began building a home library of Shakespeare, seeking out Shakespeare experts, and reading through the canon during orchestra downtime. The title comes from Act IV scene i of A Midsummer Night's Dream, where Hippolyta says: "I never heard / So musical a discord, such sweet thunder."

The suite that would constitute Such Sweet Thunder was written in just under three weeks and recorded in early 1957. Although most of the compositions were created for the suite in conjunction with Strayhorn, a few were versions of older Strayhorn songs that were reworked and re-titled for the collection. -wikipedia


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