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Mark Masters Ensemble: Ellington Saxophone Encounters
By Mark Masters
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Esquire Swank; The Line Up; LB Blues; We're In Love Again; Ultra Blue; Used To Be Duke; Jeep's
Blues; Get Ready; Love's Away; Rockin' In Rhythm; Peaches; The Happening.
Mark Masters Ensemble: Ellington Saxophone Encounters
by Greg Simmons
It could be argued that the core of bandleader Duke Ellington's wonderful textural sound was the way he harmonized his reed section, with great woody chords and lush polyphonic melodies. That reed section, with the great Johnny Hodges leading on alto, stalwarts like Paul Gonsalves on tenor and Harry Carney on baritone, as well as shorter-term ...