GOOD MORNING, P.O.U.! As you get your Sunday breakfast/brunch on, enjoy the sounds of Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing his jazz suite, Such Sweet Thunder, at the Ravinia Park Festival in Highland Park, IL in 1957, and see if you can guess what this week's series is about... … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: P.O.U Sunday Jazz Brunch
Duke Ellington
Sunday Open Thread: P.O.U. Sunday Jazz Brunch
GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! As you enjoy your Sunday breakfast/brunch, check out the sounds of Duke Ellington... Black, Brown and Beige is a jazz symphony written by Duke Ellington for his first concert at Carnegie Hall, on January 23, 1943. Ellington introduced it at Carnegie Hall as "a tone parallel to the history of the Negro in America."[1] It was Ellington's longest … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: P.O.U. Sunday Jazz Brunch