Jazz Articles about Tony Faulkner

The Tony Faulkner Jazz Orchestra: Thad Jones and the Ellington Effect

by Jack Bowers
July 28, 2007

What an intriguing idea. Thad Jones and the Ellington Effect is based on a Master's dissertation completed some years ago in which composer/arranger Tony Faulkner argued that Duke Ellington was a major influence on Thad Jones “in his development of Ellington's innovative procedures as well as in his reliance on the abilities of the musicians in the orchestra he co-led with drummer Mel Lewis from 1966-79.

The dissertation led Faulkner to write a seven-part suite, each of whose movements represents ...