The Ellington Greatest Hits Medley (Podcast #18-015)

Ellington Reflections · Sep 8, 2018

https://ellingtonreflections.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/greatest-hits-podcast.mp3“We’d like to remind you that you’re very beautiful, very sweet, very gracious, very generous and we do love you madly.”

-Duke Ellington

The recordings heard on this podcast episode:

Medley/Ellington Final Speech (CD: “Duke Ellington’s 70th Birthday Concert” Solid State SS 19000)

Recorded 26 November 1969, Manchester, England

Cootie Williams, Cat Anderson, Mercer Ellington, Rolf Ericson – trumpet; Lawrence Brown, Chuck Connors – trombone; Russell Procope…