Halfway to Dawn

I posted here a couple of days ago a 'rough cut' of Robert Levi's documentary from 1992, Reminiscing in Tempo. A major contributor to the documentary was Marian Bruce Logan, the wife of  Dr Arthur C Logan who, among his many professional duties, was personal physician to Duke Ellington. Marian Bruce Logan speaks movingly in the documentary about   the circumstances surrounding Ellington's final few moths. Marian Bruce Logan herself died in 1993. Her close ties to the issue of civil rights are evident in the extract above from the documentary where she speaks of the meeting between Ellington and Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Mrs Logan was also a former Commissioner of Human Rights in New York.

Prior to her marriage, Marian Bruce was a cabaret singer. There is only one album to her name, Halfway to Dawn, recorded for the Riverside label in 1958. She is accompanied by Jimmy Jones on the piano, Everett Barksdale on guitar, Al Hall on bass and Joe Wilder on trumpet.

Here is the full album...