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The SWR Big Band Featuring Bob Mintzer: The Music of Duke Ellington and Bob Mintzer

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2000

To celebrate the centenary of Duke Ellington’s birth, Germany’s SWR Big Band joined forces with American saxophonist / big band leader Bob Mintzer for a May ’99 concert performance in Stuttgart that includes half a dozen compositions by Ellington (or associates) and four others by Mintzer. While considerable resourcefulness is needed to transmute any of these ...