Conference, Birmingham: Michele Corcella

With a little less than three weeks before the 25th International Duke Ellington Study Group begins on Friday, 25th May, 2018, over the next few posts, we will highlight some of the participants who are presenting papers at the conference.

Michele Corcella is an arranger and composer who teaches at the Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini, Bologna has presented at two previous Ellington conferences, Amsterdam in 2014 and New York in 2016.

He graduated in Musical Studies from the University of Bologna having written a thesis on Duke Ellington's soundtracks. His expertise is evident in the following performance of the main theme from  Anatomy of a Murder which is performed by New Talents Jazz Orchestra from Michele's transcription...

The title of Michele's paper is Beyond the Blues: Ellington’s experimentation techniques in the New Orleans Suite.