More videos from the superb website of the Duke Ellington Society of Sweden celebrating the Ellington Study Group Conference in Oldham in 1988, the thirtieth anniversary of which was last Saturday, 26 May.
Fast forward through this next presentation to about the forty nine minute mark or so to hear a performance of Afro Bossa and Tutti for Cootie when Duke was indisposed and the Orchestra was led by Cab Calloway in 1963. Voce makes no mention of the specific date. I believe it must have been 12 August, 1963, however. Duke was indisposed, in Chicago, in fact, preparing the show My People. Neither does Voce mention that "the piano player" on this occasion was Billy Strayhorn.
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