View basket “Dream Weaver” has been added to your basket. ..And His Mother Called Him Bill Duke Ellington SKU: LSP3906 Barcode: 4260019712301 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner Released Date: 22nd October 2004 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info When Billy Strayhorn died of cancer in 1967, Duke Ellington was devastated. His closest friend and arranger had left his life full of music and memories. As a tribute, Ellington and his orchestra almost immediately began recording a tribute to Strayhorn, using the late arranger’s own compositions. The album features well-known and previously unrecorded Strayhorn tunes that showcase his range, versatility, and, above all, the quality that Ellington admired him most for: his sensitivity to all of the timbral, tonal, and color possibilities an orchestra could bring to a piece of music. Full of informality and soulful verve, these recordings feel like they are an afterthought, an unwillingness to completely let go, a eulogy whose final words are questions, elegantly stated and met with only the echo of their last vibrations ringing in an empty room, full of wondering, longing, and helplessness, but above all the point of the questions themselves: “Is this enough?” or “Can there ever be enough to pay an adequate tribute to this man?” They are interesting questions, because only five years later we would all be saying the same thing about Ellington. For a man who issued well over 300 albums, this set is among his most profoundly felt and very finest recorded moments. Recording: August and September 1967 in RCA Victor’s Studio A, New York City, by Ed Begley Production: Brad McCuen Artist Duke Ellington Genre Jazz Label Speakers Corner Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country Germany Track Listings 1. Snibor 2. Boo-Dah 3. Blood Count 4. U.M.M.G. 5. Charpoy 6. After All 7. The Intimacy of the Blues 8. Rain Check 9. Day-Dream 10. Rock Skippin at the Blue Note 11. All Day Long 12. 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