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Bill Frisell and Ambrose Akinmusire at NoMad Jazz Festival

by Paul Reynolds
August 7, 2026

Bill Frisell and Ambrose Akinmusire Baruch College NoMad Jazz Festival New York NY August 3, 2026 It's not uncommon to describe jazz duets as musical conversations. But the term, suggesting some silences and even disagreements, isn't quite right for an encounter as uninterrupted and musically telepathic as that of Bill ...

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Duke Ellington: Isfahan

by Ian Patterson
April 22, 2024

Part of Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (1967), “Isfahan" took its inspiration from a visit to the city of Isfahan, Iran, in 1963. Of the ancient city Ellington wrote: “everything is poetry," a sentiment transferred beautifully to this most moving of Strayhorn/Ellington compositions. Curious too, to see Ellington holding the sheet music for soloist Johnny Hodges. ...

Album

Far East Suite

By Duke Ellington

Label: RCA Victor
Released: 1967
Track listing: 1. Tourist Point of View (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 5:17 2. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 3:17 3. Isfahan (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 4:10 4. Depk (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 2:54 5. Mount Harissa (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 7:45 6. Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 3:05 7. Agra (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 2:40 8. Amad (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 4:31 9. Ad Lib on Nippon (Ellington) - 11:35 10. Tourist Point of View [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 5:21 11. Amad [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 4:16 12. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) [alternate take] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 3:18 13. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 3:24 14. Isfahan [alternate take] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 4:20 15. Depk [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 2:49 16. Mount Harissa [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 8:47

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Duke Ellington: Far East Suite

Read "Far East Suite" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

by Kurt Gottschalk
January 25, 2004

Duke Ellington's Far East Suite has never enjoyed the accolades lauded upon some of the Maestro's other major works. Black, Brown and Beige and Such Sweet Thunder are in the Ellington canon; Far East, it seems, was left behind.That may be due to its dated Orientalism. It was recorded in 1966, a strange few ...