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The Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra

Ellington Celebration

By The Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra

Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2000

The Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra: Ellington Celebration

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2000

While the number of recorded tributes to Duke Ellington last year during hundredth anniversary of the late maestro’s birth was truly enormous, there’s always room for one more, especially when it’s as well–designed and picturesque as this one by the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra. The KJRO travels backward as far as 1927 to recreate Ellington’s earliest ...