[Trombone-l] Duke Ellington Compositions question

[Raymond Horton]

We recorded Ellington's Ballet Suite "The River,"  which was 
commissioned from him by a ballet company somewhere for orchestra but 
was orchestrated by people other than Ellington, I believe.  Our 
recording was originally released on LP, I don't know if it was 
released  or is presently available on CD.


The recording is not one of our best, as the conductor was not a gifted 
Ellington interpreter, to say the least.


One of the movements from "The River" is heard and danced in the movie 
"The Turning Point" ( the Shirley MacLaine - Anne Bancroft catfight 
movie that brought Baryshnikov to the attention of the American general 
public).


There is another Ellington piece we have played for full orchestra 
called "Three Black Kings." 


Ray Horton
Bass Trb
Louisville Orchestra


pmmus1c at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Although it is not specifically written for big band plus orchestra, there is a jazz suite by Duke Ellington called Black, Brown and Beige. I performed this with the Macon Symphony Orchestra last February (link here:  http://www.maconsymphony.com/ ). There are a few excerpts at Amazon here:  http://www.amazon.com/Black-Brown-Beige-Duke-Ellington/dp/B00000IMYC . The CD is a series of takes by Ellington's orchestra ... someone else modified the works for full orchestra. It has some challenging passages for the first trombone, employing the use of a plunger in the high range. It can be played with plunger alone or perhaps with a 'pixie' mute added. 
>
> -Peter Mueller
>
>
> From: Mark Mohwinkel <mooseherd004 at yahoo.com>
> Date: 2007/05/09 Wed AM 11:14:17 EST
> To: trombone-l at server5.samford.edu
> Subject: [Trombone-l] Duke Ellington Compositions question
>
> I understand that the Duke wrote some compositions for
> string (or full?) orchestra with big band.  Does
> anyone know what they are or anything about them
> (difficulty, availability, etc.?)  I did some brief
> searches on the web to know avail and thought with the
> wealth of information residing via trombone-l, someone
> would be able to help.  Thank you!
>
> Mark Mohwinkel
> (Playing a 1967 48H)
>
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