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Blues to Be There

By RJ Spangler

Label: Eastlawn Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Spacemen; Pie Eye’s Blues; Chinoiserie; Blues to Be There; Moon Maiden; The Swingers Get the Blues Too; Blow by Blow; Tigress; Almost Cried; Purple Gazelle; Way Early Subtone; Take the ‘A’ Train; UMMG; Bonga; Moonbow; VIP’s Boogie/Jam with Sam.

Planet D Nonet: Blues to Be There

by Jack Bowers
April 11, 2023

The subtitle of Blues to be There, the Detroit-based Planet D Nonet's latest album (recorded in June and July 2022), is “A Salute to Duke Ellington." As with almost any bow to the Duke, it encompasses a healthy measure of Billy Strayhorn as well. Ellington wrote or co-wrote thirteen of the album's persuasive numbers, Strayhorn five ...