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Duke Ellington

Title: Timon of Athens (OST)

Label: Varese Sarabande

Cat No:VSD5466
Format:CD

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A Shakespeare play with music by Duke Ellington? In 1963 that´s exactly what happened when the Stratford Festival commissioned the Duke to write a score to accompany a modern-dress version of the play.

And now a new production using the Ellington score has just opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater, produced by Tony Randall´s National Actors Theatre. The Ellington score as adapted by gifted composer Stanley Silverman is classic Duke: moody, jazzy, and filled with the Duke´s trademark rhythms and harmonies. The play´s Thirties setting perfectly dovetails with Ellington´s shimmering music.

This disc is almost all world premiere material and will be of vital interest to anyone who loves great jazz, great theater and great Ellington!

Track Listing for Timon of Athens (OST)
1. Overture: Black And Tan Fantasy (Trumpet: A James Ford, Trombone: jerry Johnson)
2. Timon’s Theme (Piano: Laura Burton)
3. First Banquet
4. Toasts (Violin: Christophe Chiasson)
5. Dinner Music: Bonding Of Friendship
6. Dance: Skillipoop/ The Mooche (Clarinet:Gary Kidd, Percussion: Michael E. Wood)
7. Compulsive Giving: Creole Love Call/ Tomin’s Theme
8. Market Crash
9. False Freinds: Banquet Theme (Alto sax: Ian Harper; Violin: Christophe Chiasson)
10. Revolutionary March
11. Creditors: Draggin Blues (Alto Sax: Ian Harper)
12. The Senate/ Second Banquet
13. Soured For The Second Banquet: Creole Love Call
14. Entracte
15. Gold
16. Alcibiades‘ Camp: Ring Dem Bells (Trombone: Jerry Johnson)
17. Revoltutionary March
18. Poet And Painter
19. Timon’s Theme (English Horn: Donna-Claire Chiasson)
20. Finale And Curtain Call: Revolutionary March/ Timon’s Theme (Flute: Ian Harper)

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