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Wednesday 12 November 2025
Echoes of Ellington with Pete Long and Sara Oschlag
Ella Fitzgerald and the Duke Ellington Songbook
About this event
Member Ticket - £30
Non-member Ticket - £35
Member Dining + Ticket - £65
Non Member Dining + Ticket - £70
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Over 18s Only
Doors Open 7pm
On Stage 8.15pm
ELLA & DUKE presented by The Pete Long Orchestra
In the late 1950s to the early 1960s two of the true greats of jazz made a series of recordings which continue to dazzle listeners to this day.
Playing music from the 1958 album, 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook', this concert unites the award-winning Echoes Of Ellington orchestra led by Peter Long with internationally acclaimed jazz vocal virtuoso Sara Oschlag, to recreate and achieve an evening of the very finest in swing music.
Expect Take The 'A' Train, Caravan, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, C Jam Blues, I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart and many more.
Sunday, 16 November 15:00 (EST)
Ellington Effect Workshop #57
Depk with David Berger
About Depk
Depk is the fourth of nine parts of the Far East Suite (aka Expressions Of The Far East and Impressions Of The Far East). Ellington wrote five parts (Tourist Point Of View, Depk, Mount Harissa, Blue Pepper and Amad, Strayhorn wrote three parts (Bluebird Of Delhi, Isfahan, and Agra) and Ellington and Jimmy Hamilton collaborated on Ad Lib On Nippon).
The suite was inspired by the band’s State Department tour of the Middle and Near East in 1963, which was cut short when President Kennedy was assassinated. Ad Lib On Nippon came later from a 1964 tour of Japan and was not part of the original suite but added for the recording. Strayhorn’s Isfahan was written just prior to the State Department tour and was originally entitled Elf.
Although many of Ellington’s suites are of the highest quality, Such Sweet Thunder and Far East Suite were the most celebrated and influential on future generations of jazz composers and arrangers. Such Sweet Thunder pushed the boundaries of conventional chord progressions and song forms, while Far East Suite, written only six years later, led the way into modal writing primarily with Tourist Point Of View and Amad. Although Ellington denies being influenced by music outside his band, Coltrane’s contribution is felt heavily and will continue to be heard in later Ellington pieces like Chinoiserie from Afro Eurasian Eclipse.
Even while Ellington is at his modernistic best, he does not forsake his earlier swing roots and orchestral colours. Although now framed in the latest style, most of the soloists (Hodges, Carney, and Brown) perform in their now antique ways. Gonsalves and Ellington are more contemporary in their contributions. Hamilton remains unique with one foot in European Classical music and one foot in almost bebop.
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North West Duke Ellington Orchestra directed by Phil Shotton
Whelley Ex-Servicemen's Club Vauxhall Road, Wigan WN1 3LU
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