Sacred Concert (sélection)

Duke Ellington · 1965 (year to be confirmed)

Context

Duke Ellington's first Sacred Concert, premiered on September 16, 1965 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, as part of a "Festival of Grace" organized for the building's first year. Ellington saw it as the most important thing he had done and said he had not wanted to write a mass. The station KQED filmed the concert, later released on CD and DVD; the 1966 RCA album comes from New York recordings.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Modern big bands, Spiritual jazz, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Modern big bands: Swing, big bands, Third stream.

By the same artist

• Isfahan (1966)
• Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) (1966)
• Take the Coltrane (1963)
• In a Sentimental Mood (1963)
• Money Jungle (1962)
• Paris Blues (1961)

Sources

• EN: Sacred Concert (Ellington)

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