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Reflections on “The Far East Suite” (Podcast #17-007)
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This podcast episode features three looks at Ellington/Strayhorn’s Far East Suite. The original, of course and then two interpretations that bend, yet don’t break, the material to fit their creative impulses and their very different instrumentations.
The Tony Overwater Trio in conjunction with the Calefax Reed Quintet, has no keyboard or brass.
Slavic Soul Party! is in the brass band tradition, with accordion and tuba supplying the rhythm section’s harmonic functions…
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