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Duke's Place
By Mercer Hassy
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Daybreak Express; Satin Doll; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; U.M.M.G.; In a Sentimental
Mood; Hot and Bothered; Bakiff; Passion Flower; The Queen’s Suite: Apes and Peacocks;
Prelude to a Kiss/In My Solitude; Duke’s Place; Happy Go Lucky Local.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Jack Bowers
On a personal note, this is unlike any “best of the year" summaries I've written during my more than twenty-five years as a reviewer for All About Jazz. The reason is that I fell in late April and broke my left femur. As a result, I completed no reviews from that time until early September, a ...
Mercer Hassy Orchestra: Duke's Place
by Jack Bowers
If much of the music on Duke's Place seems only vaguely familiar, that is probably because composer-arranger Mercer Hassy has taken more than a dozen songs written and/or made popular by Duke Ellington and his orchestra and turned them, for better or worse, inside out and upside down, playing with melody, harmony and rhythm but always ...
