Jazz Flashes

A companion site to 'The Vintage Bandstand,' this is a series of brief posts about all kinds of good jazz, written and published by Anton Garcia-Fernandez in Martin, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Showing posts with label Duke Ellington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duke Ellington. Show all posts
Friday, April 14, 2017

Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones at Basin Street East, 1961

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One of the smoothest and most successful jazz and pop vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, Billy Eckstine was also one of the most forwar...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Duke Ellington at the Rainbow Grille, 1967

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While Duke Ellington often led sessions with small groups, particularly in the early years of his career, unfortunately not too many of hi...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Paul Gonsalves & Ray Nance, 1970

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I recently published here a post about the 1956 collaboration between Duke Ellington and Rosemary Clooney  that resulted in the...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Duke Ellington and Rosemary Clooney, 1956

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Although his records often feature worthy vocalists, Duke Ellington didn't collaborate with too many singers on full-length albums....
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

A Swinging Christmas with the Big Bands

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At the end of every year, right after Thanksgiving, Christmas music begins to fill our home in Martin, TN, and the jazzier the rhythm, the...
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