Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo [Restored] 

Thank you for sharing, Steve!

Amen my friend--tomorrow is not promised to any of us-- sorry you missed seeing Duke that last time- but fortunately-- I got to see one of my jazz Heroes-- Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report in 1981--in Berkeley California-- several years before he passed on-- the most amazing band ever-- peace to you and yours

Frank Zappa says in The Real Frank Zappa Book in a chapter entitled Jazz: The Music of Unemployment In 1969, George Wein, impresario of the Newport Jazz Festival, decided it would be a tremendous idea to put the Mothers of Invention on a jazz tour of the East Coast. We wound up working in a package with Kirk, Duke Ellington and Gary Burton in Miami at the Jai Alai Fronton, and at another gig in South Carolina. The touring package did not carry its own PA -- we had to use whatever speakers existed in each of the venues we were booked into. The hall in South Carolina was rigged with small jukebox speakers, set in a ring around the building. Useless, but there we were -- we had to play the show. Before we went on, I saw Duke Ellington begging -- pleading -- for a ten-dollar advance. It was really depressing. After that show, I told the guys: "That's it -- we're breaking the band up." We'd been together in one configuration or another for about five years at that point, and suddenly EVERYTHING looked utterly hopeless to me. If Duke Ellington had to beg some George Wein assistant backstage for ten bucks, what the fuck was I doing with a ten-piece band, trying to play rock and roll -- or something that was almost rock and roll?

Well at least you didn’t oversleep or ditch him for a girl or something lol. As he said himself “...this, this is all a lease...”

I couldn't agree with you more. This was on my list of Music theory. What a wonderful composition.

Your kidding me !!!! If i had a car i'd drive down just to meet him

a bit too confident .;he often plays behind the tempo IMHO

@@67lobeHe did this purposefully. He loved the relaxed feel of his playing and liked staying behind the beat. I use this in my own playing.

Yeah I don’t think he was behind tempo, he was keeping the rhythm in the pocket while Duke was ebbing and flowing around him, syncopating

Can you describe what it was like? I would love to hear from someone who has actually seen him LIVE. That could also be a legacy dedicated to him if you don't mind. I am passionate about music, and I love to hear people talk about their different types of music because I learn more about music from talking to people who love music as much as I do.

@@mariestandish4746 Two very different experieces. The Sacred Concert was a series of extended works with religious and spiritual themes. We were way up in the balcony of a great old theatre could mostly just see the tops of the heads of the musicians. It was very much a concert performance. The Aragon on the north side of Chicago was one of the last of the old ballrooms that Ellington and other big bands had played in the 1930s-40s. It was being used mostly for rock concerts in the late 1960s. Ellington ran it as a straight dance date. Lots of people were swing dancing I hung around near the bandstand and could see the musicians right up close, a real thrill.

@@thendrjazz Wow

You are very fortunate to have seen the Maestro in the flesh. He's up there with Gershwyn, Beethoven, and Debussy.

Yeah. Rip

I would love to take the A train.

I got Bobby Burgess' autobio, and he wrote that when he was dancing on Lawrence Welk's show, Mr. Champagne performed that song, but called the song "Take A Train." Urgh . . . well, English was his second language, after German . . .

And on a Steinway.

It was recorded on January 23, 1967 in Denmark. I added this to the description including the names of the players.

Thank you so much!

Ellington was from Washington DC and born in 1899. I have heard the baseball story, but TR was still the President (he left office in March of 1909). He enjoyed riding his horse around the city and would sometimes stop and watch the boys. A President could do that back then. After he left the White House, TR did not stay in DC and rarely had an idle moment. There was the long safari in Africa and exploring the River of Doubt in Brazil which was renamed the Roosevelt River or the Rio Teodoro.

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The original recording is in 60i, which is 60 fields (half-frames) per second, after proper deinterlacing the signal becomes 60p, 60 frames per second.