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The SWR Big Band Featuring Bob Mintzer: The Music of Duke Ellington and Bob Mintzer
by Jack Bowers
To celebrate the centenary of Duke Ellington’s birth, Germany’s SWR Big Band joined forces with American saxophonist / big band leader Bob Mintzer for a May ’99 concert performance in Stuttgart that includes half a dozen compositions by Ellington (or associates) and four others by Mintzer. While considerable resourcefulness is needed to transmute any of these ...