Echoes of Harlem

Duke Ellington (Cootie Williams) · 1936 (year to be confirmed) · 1936 Ellington piece featuring Williams as soloist.

Context

Composed by Duke Ellington in 1936 and also known as Cootie's Concerto, this mood piece is a showcase for Cootie Williams's muted trumpet: a blues in F minor over a piano ostinato, a fourteen-bar passage, then a saxophone chorale in A-flat major. André Hodeir saw it as a demonstration of the role of sound in jazz. Williams re-recorded it with his Rug Cutters in January 1938.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington. Among the origins and influences of Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano).

By the same artist

• Concerto for Cootie (1940)

Sources

• EN: Echoes of Harlem
• mosaicrecords.com

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