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Duke Ellington, Brian Wilson and Friends: Shimmering Prologue: The Lost Sandbox Sessions

by Mike Jurkovic
April 1, 2026

Picture this: LA: Tuesday, early September, '66. A few months after Pet Sounds (Capitol, 1966) reshaped the landscape. The weather (pre-climate change) breaks around the mid 70's with a slight breeze sliding in from the east.  Mired in an un-stately creative slump, Duke Ellington finds himself being ushered into 6000 Sunset Boulevard (Western Studio 3 for all you folklorists out there) where Beach Boy Brian Wilson (a man who believed his every whim was a twenty-four track master) ...