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Label Double Moon Records |
UPC 0608917138221 |
Catalogue number DMCHR 71382 |
Release date 06 November 2020 |
"Wonderfully swinging and reminiscent of the great era of the incomparable Duke Ellington - that's what's behind the formation of the great trumpeter (and cornetist) Axel Schlosser. Together with the outstanding pianist Thilo Wagner and the equally great bassist Jean-Philippe Wadle as well as the elegant drummer Jean-Paul Hochstädter, the four gentlemen work their way through the Ellington/Armstrong Songbook.... "
Concerto, Austria, 06-2-2021Duke Ellington influenced millions of people both around the world and at home. He gave American music its own sound for the first time. In his fifty year career, he played over 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East as well as Asia.
Simply put, Ellington transcends boundaries and fills the world with a treasure trove of music that renews itself through every generation of fans and music-lovers. His legacy continues to live onand will endure for generations to come. Winton Marsalis said it best when he said "His music sounds like America." Because of the unmatched artistic heights to which he soared, no one deserved the phrase “beyond category” more than Ellington, for it aptly describes his life as well. He was most certainly one of a kind that maintained a llifestyle with universal appeal which transcended countless boundaries.
Duke Ellington is best remembered for the over 3000 songs that he composed during his lifetime. His best known titles include; "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing", "Sophisticated Lady", "Mood Indigo", “Solitude", "In a Mellotone",and "Satin Doll". The most amazing part about Ellington was the most creative while he was on the road. It was during this time when he wrote his most famous piece, "Mood Indigo"which brought him world wide fame.
When asked what inspired him to write, Ellington replied, "My men and my race are the inspiration of my work. I try to catch the character and mood and feeling of my people".
Duke Ellington's popular compositions set the bar for generations of brilliant jazz, pop, theatre and soundtrack composers to come. While these compositions guarantee his greatness, whatmakes Duke an iconoclastic genius, and an unparalleled visionary, what has granted him immortality are his extended suites. From 1943's Black, Brown and Beige to 1972's The Uwis Suite, Duke used the suite format to give his jazz songs a far more empowering meaning, resonance and purpose: to exalt, mythologize and re-contextualize the African-American experience on a grand scale.
Duke Ellington was partial to giving brief verbal accounts of the moods his songs captured. Reading those accounts is like looking deep into the background of an old photo of New York and noticing the lost and almost unaccountable details that gave the city its character during Ellington's heyday, which began in 1927 when his band made the Cotton Club its home.''The memory of things gone,'' Ellington once said, ''is important to a jazz musician,'' and the stories he sometimes told about his songs are the record of those things gone. But what is gone returns, its pulse kicking, when Ellington's music plays, and never mind what past it is, for the music itself still carries us forward today.
Duke Ellington was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966. He was later awarded several other prizes, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, and the Legion of Honor by France in 1973, the highest civilian honors in each country. He died of lung cancer and pneumonia on May 24, 1974, a month after his 75th birthday, and is buried in theBronx, in New York City. At his funeral attendedby over 12,000 people at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Ella Fitzgerald summed up the occasion, "It's a very sad day...A genius has passed."
Wonderfully swinging and reminiscent of the great era of the incomparable Duke Ellington - that's what's behind the formation of the great trumpeter (and cornetist) Axel Schlosser. Together with the outstanding pianist Thilo Wagner and the equally great bassist Jean-Philippe Wadle as well as the elegant drummer Jean-Paul Hochstädter, the four gentlemen work their way through the Ellington/Armstrong Songbook....
Concerto, Austria, 06-2-2021
... It is to his credit that Schlosser's homage does not turn into a copy. And so "To Satch and Duke" has become a very successful mainstream CD...
Jazzpodium, 31-1-2021
... The whole thing culminates in Ellington's "Portrait Of Louis Armstrong", which brings both legends together and is brought into the here and now by the quartet not reverently, but fresh and vital. More than a history lesson.
Jazzthing, 25-1-2021
How devotedly the quartet of trumpeter Axel Schlosser has internalized the music of two giants of African-American music is already noticeable in "In A Mellow Tone". But this homage to Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington by no means gets lost in a retrospective true to the works: each of the seventeen popular traditional themes is updated with modern jazz full of verve...
Fono Forum, 12-1-2021
... The best imaginary 'After Hours' nightclub music I've heard re-recorded in a long time....
Na Dann, 16-12-2020
... But the band doesn't play these classics, but interprets them in their own way, dusting them off in a special way, leaving their origins intact and renovating them... And - very important - it swings excellently, it is fantastic just to listen to the Rhythm Section...
Musik an sich, 09-12-2020