As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Duke Ellington's appearance at The New Orleans Jazz Festival on 25 April, 1970 and the performance of the essential compositions that comprised the New Orleans Suite which Ellington wrote to commemorate the occasion and the city, I recently discovered on the uCathode Tube these performances of early Ellington compositions by a current New Orleans ensemble, Tuba Skinny.
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