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Seattle Repertory

Sacred Music of Duke Ellington

By Seattle Repertory

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Disc 1: In the Beginning God; Tell Me It

Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra: Sacred Music of Duke Ellington

by Jack Bowers
March 5, 2006

The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra pours its heart and soul into these recent concert performances of Duke Ellington's sacred music, premiered by the Ellington orchestra in 1965, '68 and '73. It's a natural fit, as the SRJO was “born in 1989 with a presentation of Ellington's sacred music as an ecumenical winter solstice event. Some members ...

SRJO Live

By Seattle Repertory

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2002
Track listing: Happy Go Lucky Local, parts 1 and 2; Stomp It Off; The Maids of Cadiz; Jumpin' at the Woodside; Concerto for Cootie; Better Get Hit in Your Soul; Isfahan; Nasty Magnus; Blue and Sentimental; Caravan; Walk on the Wild Side (68:32).

The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra: SRJO Live

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2002

I usually have mixed emotions about repertory Jazz orchestras. On the one hand, they're not playing anything I've not heard before; on the other, the music that comprises the very bedrock of Jazz certainly deserves to be heard again and again. I suppose that, when all is said and done, one's response to revisiting the music ...