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Small Group Dates from Big Band Leaders: Sun Ra & Duke Ellington

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
July 18, 2023
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Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz and creative music from a historical perspective. In this week's show we take a listen to some small group works from big band leaders Sun Ra and Duke Ellington. And of course, new releases, recent acquisitions and gems from the archives featuring Lester Bowie, Satoko Fujii, Roots Magic and more.

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Thelonious Monk "Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:00
Mildred Anderson "I Don't Have A Chance" from Person to Person (Prestige, Original Blues Classics) 01:30
Lester Bowie "For Louie" from All The Magic! (ECM Records) 07:15
Panorama Jazz Band "Adiue Lachenben" from single (Self Released) 26:25
Patricia Brennan "More Touch" from More Touch (Pyroclastic Records) 31:33
Eri Yamamoto "Ends To Start" from A Woman With A Purple Wig (Mahakala Music) 39:20
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra "Sometimes I'm Happy" from The Invisible Shield (Enterplanetary Koncepts) 48:44
Duke Ellington "Cottontail" from Duke's Big 4 (Pablo) 55:21
Sun Ra Trio "Magic City Blue" from God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (Cosmic Myth Records) 59:34
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach "Fleurette Africaine (African Flower)" from Money Jungle (Blue Note) 1:05:23
Sun Ra Quartet "Rebellion" from The Mystery of Being (Klimt) 1:08:59
Sun Ra Quartet "Exactly Like You" from The Mystery of Being (Klimt) 1:21:21
Sun Ra Quartet "Exactly Like You" from The Mystery of Being (Klimt) 1:21:21
Duke Ellington "Intimate Interlude" from The Intimate Ellington (Pablo) 1:28:20
Roots Magic Sextet "Run as Slow as You Can" from Long Old Road (Clean Feed) 1:33:28
Roots Magic "Dogon AD" from Last Kind Words (Clean Feed) 1:39:07
Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock "Azure" from Azure (ECM Records) 1:45:58
Vincente Archer "Mirai" from Short Stories (Cellar Music Group) 1:52:02
Mildred Anderson "Hard Times" from No More In LIfe (Prestige, Bluesville) 1:56:53

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