Presented by Alyn Shipton. A collaboration between the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Paul Mann.
Movements from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite both as arranged by Duke
Ellington and Billy Strayhom and in its original orchestration.
8.15 Sometimes I Just Take All the Bows
Russell Davies traces the development of Duke Ellington the band leader from the jungle music of the Carlton Club to the international concert stage.
8.35 Ellington, arr Marsalis Afro Bossa (Bula); Blues in Blueprint;
Happy Go Lucky Local: A Tone Parallel to Harlem