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SUCH SWEET THUNDER

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The complete original album Such Sweet Thunder, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s musical vision of the works of William Shakespeare. As a bonus we offer three extra tracks from the same sessions that were not included on the original LP, as well as two other complete Ellington suites: The Harlem Suite & The Controversial Suite. For an African American jazz musician to compose a suite based on Shakespearian themes during the 1950s was certainly not an every day occasion. In fact, it would have been an ambitious project even for a classical composer. But as Irving Townsend explained in the original liner notes that follow, when the composer in question is the one and only Duke Ellington, no one is surprised at all. The result of many sessions, the current edition presents the complete original Such Sweet Thunder album tracks 1 12 plus three tunes from the same sessions that were originally intended to form part of the suite but were later discarded "Suburban Beauty", "A Flat Minor" and "Cafe Au Lait". As a bonus, this release also includes two of Ellington’s previous suites: The Harlem Suite, also known as A Tone Parallel to Harlem, and The Controversial Suite, a kind of humorous work written as a friendly critique of some of the different musical styles in jazz.

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Such Sweet Thunder

Sonnet For Caesar

Sonnet To Hank Cinq

Lady Mac

Sonnet In Search Of A Moor

The Telecasters

Up And Down, Up And Down (I Will Lead Them Up And Down)

Sonnet For Sister Kate

The Star Crossed Lovers

Madness In Great Ones

Half The Fun

Circle Of Fourths

Suburban Beauty

A Flat Minor

Cafe Au Lait

A Tone Parallel To Harlem (The Harlem Suite)

The Controversial Suite Part 1 (Before My Time)

The Controversial Suite Part 2 (Later)

Personnel: Clark Terry, Willie Cook, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance, Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders, Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Jimmy Woode, Sam Woodyard

Label:	ESSENTIAL JAZZ CLASSICS
Number:	55416
Item Code:	61982
Format:	CD
Genre:	JAZZ
Dates:	(1951/1956-1957)
Price:	$15.00
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