Until recently, the video above was available on YouTube. It appears to have been taken down. This is a shame. I am therefore posting the video here. No copyright infringement is intended but this particular luminous and sublime performance of Happy Reunion by Paul Gonsalves and Duke Ellington should be available freely and always for everyone.
The performance took place on 21 July, 1972 at the University of Wisconsin as part of an Ellington masterclass. The story behind the video is the subject of the next Tone Parallel newsletter which, all being well, will be winging its way to subscribers later this month.
I will post detail here when the newsletter is ready.
Looking forward to this!
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