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The Tony Faulkner Jazz Orchestra: Thad Jones and the Ellington Effect

by Jack Bowers
July 28, 2007

What an intriguing idea. Thad Jones and the Ellington Effect is based on a Master's dissertation completed some years ago in which composer/arranger Tony Faulkner argued that Duke Ellington was a major influence on Thad Jones “in his development of Ellington's innovative procedures as well as in his reliance on the abilities of the musicians in ...