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| And His Mother Called Him Bill | ...This programme follows Strayhorn from his move away from DUKE ELLINGTON until his triumphant return in the late 50s.... |
| Arrangers Anonymous | ...This programme explores three numbers from the suite Such Sweet Thunder, by DUKE ELLINGTON and Billy Strayhorn ... |
| Artist Focus | ...With Martin Handley. Featuring German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who is heard in Brahms's Four Serious Songs and, displaying his lighter side, in music by DUKE ELLINGTON ... |
| Bbc Proms 2007 | ...Paying tribute to the enduring genius of Shakespeare, John Dankworth and Cleo Laine celebrate their 80th birthdays in the company of the Bard himself. Dankworth fashions a sequence of Shakespeare settings that really swing, and celebrates his friendship with DUKE ELLINGTON by performing his Shakespearean suite Such Sweet Thunder.... |
| Bbc Proms 2008 | ...Young cellist Han-Na Chang joins the orchestra for Three Mediations from Bernstein's personal and thought-provoking theatre piece Mass, while New York finally comes to town with a jazz work by DUKE ELLINGTON.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...Young cellist Han-Na Chang joins the orchestra for Three Mediations from Bernstein's personal and thought-provoking theatre piece Mass, while New York finally comes to town with a jazz work by DUKE ELLINGTON.... |
| Between The Ears | ...A tour of the vast Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, which is the final resting place for numerous jazz luminaries including DUKE ELLINGTON, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, King Oliver and Max Roach.... |
| Blagger's Guide To Jazz, The | ...Episode one focuses on DUKE ELLINGTON, the saxophone and bop.... |
| Charles Mingus (1922-1979) | ...Donald Macleod and Brian Priestley explore the works Mingus wrote as the 1960s began, including several jazz portraits which pay tribute to those who influenced him, such as DUKE ELLINGTON and Charlie Parker, as well as pieces reacting to the American civil rights struggle.... |
| Clare Teal | ...Clare Teal presents sizzling swing and scorching dance tunes to warm the cockles for the festive season. Including the sounds of Geraldo, Louis Armstrong, DUKE ELLINGTON, Count Basie, Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, Ted Heath and Glenn Miller.... |
| Cotton Club, The | ...George Melly concludes his history of one of the world's most famous nightclubs. Tonight's programme features the orchestras that provided music during the Cotton Club's 17-year existence, including the bands of DUKE ELLINGTON, Cab Calloway and Jimmie Lunceford.... |
| Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder | |
| Echoes Of Harlem | ...George Melly presents a five-part series tracing the development of jazz and blues in Harlem. In the second programme, he meets with artist Francisco Franco, goes downtown to meet Harold Ashby, one of the few remaining members of the DUKE ELLINGTON Orchestra, and travels to Jamaica on New York's Long Island to see bassist Milt Hinton, known for his work with Cab Calloway and Billie Holliday.... |
| Friday Night Is Music Night | ...The Billy Strayhorn / DUKE ELLINGTON story is performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. "Half Way To Dawn" features Guy Barker & his Big Band, plus the BBC Concert Orchestra & conductor Mike Dixon.... |
| Jazz Century | ...Russell Davies presents a 52-part history of jazz. 25: `The Mature Ellington'. When composer and pianist Billy Strayhorn joined forces with DUKE ELLINGTON, the band's repertoire grew dramatically. The subsequent arrival of brilliant young bass player Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster meant that the Duke could enter the 1940s with unprecedented confidence.... |
| Jazz Library | ...Alyn Shipton is joined by expert Pete Long to choose the essential recordings from DUKE ELLINGTON's output between 1940 and his death in 1974, including the long symphonic work Black Brown and Beige as well as his version of the Nutcracker Suite and the Second Sacred Concert.... |
| Jazz On Stage | ...Guy also explores the stage compositions of DUKE ELLINGTON, Miles Davis and Gil Evans, as well as setting the stage for his own theatrical composition dZf, which premieres at the London Jazz Festival.... |
| Jazz Record Requests | ...... |
| Letters To An Icon | ...Writers Stan Barstow and Alan Plater address letters to their personal icons, J B Priestley and DUKE ELLINGTON, while Russell Hoban travels up a mind-river to interview his hero Lord Jim about character, destiny and fiction. With Richard Heap, Malcolm Hebden, James Quinn and Nicholas Blane.... |
| Master Musicians | ...Five programmes to celebrate the start of the 1999 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. 3: `Music Is My Mistress' by DUKE ELLINGTON, read by the bass Willard White.... |
| Melly Talks Jazz | ...George Melly presents a musical chat show for fans of jazz and blues. This first programme features guest Charlie Watts, who reveals his passion for Eddie Condon, Louis Armstrong and DUKE ELLINGTON ... |
| Music For A Wizard Whizz | ...DUKE ELLINGTON: The Mooch... |
| Music Matters | ...To celebrate DUKE ELLINGTON's centenary, Ivan Hewett looks at his influence over jazz and classical music. And teachers and pupils give their opinions of the Associated Board's new jazz examinations.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley is joined by the painter Martin Fuller, whose work is currently enjoying a retrospective at the art gallery and museum in his home town of Leamington Spa. His musical choices include songs by DUKE ELLINGTON, Oscar Brown and Charles Mingus, as well as a late Beethoven string quartet and an excerpt from Verdi's Requiem.... |
| Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert | ...The versatile British saxophonist John Harle is a performer, director and composer whose work crosses the conventional boundaries of classical, jazz and commercial music. He is joined in this eclectic programme with pianist Steve Lodder, who worked with Harle on his 'shadow of the duke' recording project. They perform arrangements of DUKE ELLINGTON, alongside the jazz-influenced saxophone sonata by American composer and performer Phil Woods.... |
| Radio 3 Requests | ...Plus Beethoven in a light mood with his variations on Mozart's La ci darem la mano and a celebrated performance of DUKE ELLINGTON's Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue as requested by guest Marshall Marcus, the Southbank Centre's head of music.... |
| Richard Rodney Bennett - 70th Birthday Composer Portrait | ...Choral music has been a constant in Richard Rodney Bennett's output since his earliest days as a composer. Complementing Rolf Hind's performance of Noctuary for solo piano (based on Scott Joplin's Elite Syncopations), the BBC Singers perform a wide-ranging selection of Bennett's choral pieces, sacred and secular, several of them composed specially for the group, including arrangements of songs by George Gershwin and DUKE ELLINGTON.... |
| Sometimes I Just Take All The Bows | ...Russell Davies traces the development of DUKE ELLINGTON the band leader, from the jungle music of the Carlton Club to the international concert stage. Ellington led his Famous Orchestra (as it was billed) for 50 years, sometimes playing down his role as concert master - but it involved constant balancing of personalitites within the band, and constant adjustment of his role as pianist to meet the needs of the ensemble's sound.... |
| Sound Stories | ...Richard Baker investigates the importance of Manhattan in Western musical culture. Bernstein: America (West Side Story). Chorus and orchestra/Bernstein. Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor (1st mvt). New York PO/Arturo Toscanini. Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor (From the New World). Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini. DUKE ELLINGTON: Cotton Club Strip. DUKE ELLINGTON and His Orchestra.... |
| Swee' Pea - Billy Strayhorn Story | ...Born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1915, the young Strayhorn offered his composition Lush Life to DUKE ELLINGTON in 1938. Less than a year later, Strayhorn had become an arranger and pianist with the Ellington band, a collaboration that was to last until Strayhorn's death.... |
| Take Two | ...DUKE ELLINGTON And Billy Strayhorn... |
| Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan [6 Music] | ...Among his selections: Goodbye (Baby) by Elmore James, Vaya Con Dios (Go with God) by Les Paul & Mary Ford, See You Later Alligator by Bobby Charles, Ivie Anderson & DUKE ELLINGTON's I'm Checkin' Out, Goo'm Bye, Goodnight Irene by Lead Belly and Lee Dorsey's So Long.... |
| Voices | ...Today the Voices spotlight falls on the great American soprano Renee Fleming. She joins Iain Burnside in the studio to introduce a selection of her recordings, ranging from operatic arias by Dvorák, Verdi and Andre Previn, to songs by Rachmaninov and DUKE ELLINGTON.... |
| Words And Music | ...... |