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Duke Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder
Julian Joseph and Brian Priestley continue their chronological survey of the music of Duke Ellington, focusing today on the 1950s with excerpts from his Newport Festival Suite and his Shakespearean suite Such Sweet Thunder, as well as the extended composition Harlem (A Tone Parallel to Harlem).

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Julian Joseph
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Brian Priestley
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