Duke Ellington At Newport
The celebrated performance of “Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue with those 27 chorus’ by Paul Gonsalves at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival is the subject of this brief clip from Ken Burns “Jazz”. The color movie clips you see come from the 1958 Newport Festival and were part of “Jazz On A Summer’s Day”. A triumph of Ellington and nice to see NJF founder George Wein interviewed for this segment.
-Scott Wenzel
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