Duke Ellington

For more than three decades, Duke Ellington's Carnegie Hall concerts of the Forties
(especially the first in the series, which featured his extended work "Black, Brown and
Beige") have been viewed as pinnacles of orchestral jazz history. Because of a recording
ban, "BB&B" and other pieces from the concerts were not available to the public, which only
added to the mythic proportions of the events. Now, Prestige has released the fi... More >