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The Governor

The Governor

By The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Take the "A" Train; In a Mellow Tone; Prelude to a Kiss; Main Stem; Concerto for Cootie; Blue Rose; Perdido; The Governor; Bojangles; Second Line; Mood Indigo; Harlem Airshaft (62:50).

The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra: The Governor

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2002

Nearly a third of this splendid album by the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, recorded in March 1999 at Copenhagen's JazzHouse, is devoted to “The Governor," conductor Niels Jørgen Steen's enterprising centenary salute to Edward Kennedy Ellington on which ensemble and soloists alike (nine in all) masterfully reanimate the enduring Ellington spirit. The other eleven selections were ...