Newport Jazz Festival In New York took place at Carnegie Hall on 8 July, 1972.
This particular engagement does not seem to loom particularly largely in Ellington lore and yet, among other interesting aspects of the performance, somewhere in there is Barney Bigard who worked with Ellington previously over a decade drier on the sessions with Duke and Louis Armstrong.
In another notable aspect, the singer Aura Rully makes a rare appearance (her début, I believe) as part of the ensemble. Audio, at least, has been published of this part of the concert...
Other selections, too, appeared some years ago on a CD-r production by Squatty Roo called Rugged Jungle from which release: Ac Ac...
This “Somebody Cares” looked and sounded strangely familiar to me. Now I know why — it appears on the DVD Duke Ellington Live, filmed November 16, 1973, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. AM and TW were followed by Raymond Fol and Claude Bolling, whom Ellington is about to introduce here. YouTube has a recording but not the video. It must have been some sort of Newport touring show.
ReplyDeleteIn New York Notes Whitney Balliett describes the Aura Rully performance (identifying her only as “Aura,” as DE does here). That was in New York. I’ve always wondered what it sounded like. Thanks!
You're welcome - and thanks for the correction. I have mixed up my Newport touring engagements. A schoolboy error! Post now edited to preserve the audio - which is also downloadable (if there is such a word) from Aura's website.
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