Emancipation Blues
12/15/11 – Hale School Jazz Orchestra performs with Foxborough High School Jazz Ensemble
Moanin’ (Mingus)
12/15/11 – Hale School Jazz Orchestra performs with Foxborough High School Jazz Ensemble
Meetin’ Time
12/15/11 – Hale School Jazz Orchestra performs with Foxborough High School Jazz Ensemble. Kansas City Suite
Sunset and the Mocking Bird
12/15/11 – The Hale School Jazz Orchestra visits Foxborough High School. From Wikipedia: The Ellington Suites is a studio album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington which collects three suites recorded in 1959, 1971 & 1972 released on the Pablo label in 1976.[1]. The album won a Grammy Awardfor Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band in 1976.[2] Ellington wrote… Read more »
OOP BOP SH’ BAM
12/15/11 – The Hale School Jazz Orchestra visits Foxborough High School. From Wikipedia: While working in the bands of Edgar Hayes and Roy Eldridge, Clarke began experimenting with moving the time-keeping role from the combination of snare drum or hi-hat and bass drum to embellished quarter notes on the ride cymbal, the familiar “ding-ding-da-ding” pattern,… Read more »
Intimacy of the Blues
12/15/11 – The Hale School Jazz Orchestra visits Foxborough High School. From Wikipedia: The Intimacy of the Blues is a studio album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded in 1967 and 1970, and released on theFantasy label in 1986. Track listing All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated “The Intimacy of the Blues” (Billy Strayhorn)… Read more »
Heaven (Duke Ellington)
12/15/11 – The Hale School Jazz Orchestra visits Foxborough High School. From Wikipedia: Ellington’s Second Sacred Concert premiered at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York on January 19, 1968 but no recording of this actual performance has surfaced. The Second Sacred Concert was then recorded on January 22 and February 19, 1968 at Fine Studio in New… Read more »
Rockin In Rhythm (Ellington)
12/15/11 – The Hale School Jazz Orchestra visits Foxborough High School. From Wikipedia: Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974)[1] was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of The Boston Globe “In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American… Read more »
Hanky Panky
12/15/11 – The Hale School Jazz Orchestra visits Foxborough High School.