Few musicians in jazz have such a vast recorded legacy as Duke Ellington. In the first of what will eventually be several editions devoted to the Ducal canon, bandleader and Ellington expert Pete Long joins Alyn Shipton to propose the essential recordings from
Ellington's output between 1940 and his death in 1974. Producers Simon Poole and Alyn Shipton EMAIL: jazzlibrary<8bbc.co.uk