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Deepest Blue Posts: 2056 Jun 30 11 12:24 PM	Tags : None Duke created specific vehicles for his "stars". Some of my favorites are captured on the RCA box set "Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band 1940-1942". One vehicle which featured the entire saxophone section was the rocking, infectious "Cotton Tail (aka C-Jam Blues)". My favorite selection and vehicle in this collection is Harry Carney's rendition of "Sophisticated Lady"- a gorgeous melody matched to an impeccable lyric sensibility. Carney's unique voice permeates this composition both in the studio as it did "live" for dancers , witness "Duke Ellington at Fargo, Live-1940 (Complete)". What are your favorite Ellington "vehicles" and performances of those vehicles? Do you have a favorite Ellington star? St Louis, MO " Jazz is the music of the freedom of collective improvisation."- Duke Ellington in Music Is My Mistress. “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.” Duke Ellington quote It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.-James Weldon Johnson "And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African-American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.'"-Kurt Vonnegut
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Deepest Blue Posts: 616 Jul 1 11 3:54 AM	As a saxophonist, Johnny Hodges is one of my heroes. Of the many Hodges features Ellington wrote, I think my favorite is "Star Crossed Lovers" from Such Sweet Thunder. My favorite rendition is probably the 1963 recording on The Great Paris Concert - I like it even better than the studio recording, and that's the version I learned it from. About ten years ago, I played in an all-Ellington concert, and when I was offered a feature number, I picked "Star Crossed Lovers." At the dress rehearsal, my Selmer Mark 6 alto sax fell off its stand and was too damaged to play. The bass player had a 1945 Conn 6M that his daughter had played - he lent it to me for the concert. I like the horn so much that I bought it. My Webpage My Blog
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Posts: 233 Jul 1 11 4:10 AM	Hodges: Isfahan
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