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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.

Mercer Hassy Orchestra: Duke's Place

by Jack Bowers
April 17, 2024

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 ...