Suite Thursday (Podcast #23-005)

Ellington Reflections · May 29, 2023

“Then in 1960 we came up with Suite Thursday for the Monterey Festival that year…we tried to parallel John Steinbeck’s story, “Sweet Thursday,” which was set in Monterey’s Cannery Row.”

Duke Ellington, Music is my Mistress

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The recordings heard on this podcast episode:

Misfit Blues/Schwiphti [from “Suite Thursday”] (CD: “The Great Paris Concert” Collectables 7818)

Recorded 1 February 1963 in Paris, France

Cootie Williams, Roy Burrowes, Cat Anderson – trumpet; Ray Nance –…