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Publication Date
11-21-2013
Year of Release
2013
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Personnel:
Brody Potter, Caleb Hardy, alto saxophone
Lucy Ward, Jordan Carinelli, tenor saxophone
Aaron Jarvis, baritone saxophone
Brianna Williams, Mykal Haner, trombone
John Galloway, bass trombone
Alaina Krantz, vocal
Andrea Withee, Christy Carson, Adam Burroway, trumpet
Colten Settle, Stephen Dorsey, guitar
Tim Smith, piano
Jordan Trent, Colin Milam, bass
Rod Elkins, drums
Beyond Category
He didn't sleep at night
He liked to eat large meals-steak, vegetables, and grapefruit
He drank Coca-Cola with sugar in it
He hated to color green, especially wallpaper
Duke Ellington liked to eat ice cream
He was constantly clean-sartorially speaking
He was the greatest flirt-ever
He respected his elders
He though that the 13th was a lucky day and Friday the 13th was an especially lucky day
He loved the differences in people and revered originality above all else
He liked kangaroos
Duke Ellington remembered people's birthdays
He was patriotic
He worshiped his mother
He was a very good dancer
He liked blue, royal blue, especially curtains
He had good manners and loved New Orleans
Duke Ellington was always calm, even though he was the leader of an orchestra of 16 musicians-all characters-ready, willing, and inclined to express themselves
Duke Ellington touched more people than confetti
He captured the sound of trains, planes, baby(s), lions, and elephants
He liked simple songs with complicated developments and pretty endings
He didn't change with the style; he developed
He invented a new system of harmony based on the blues-whole musical forms that have yet to be imitated
He invented new logics of part writing and orchestration for each composition
In other words, he was slave to no systems
Duke Ellington combined the sensuality of the blues with the naïveté of society music to create blue mood pieces
He understood that music is neither new nor old
He believed that there were two kinds of music: the good kind and the other kind
He was the world's most prolific composer of blues, blueses of all shapes and sizes
Duke Ellington wrote music based on Shakespeare's themes
Wrote music to accompany the paintings of Degas
Wrote thousands of inventive arrangements for instrumentalists and vocalists of various levels of sophistication
Wrote music in all 12 known keys and some keys that are still unknown
Wrote music about romantic life under Paris skies
Wrote music about little bugs and other Night Creatures
Wrote music about countries all over the world from Nippon to Togo
Wrote music to accompany movies, television shows, ballets,
Broadway shows, and the exercise of horizontal options
Wrote music to be played in gymnasiums, street parades, and charades
Wrote sacred music
Wrote music about the human experience; if it was experienced, he stylized it
In other words, Duke Ellington had a lot on his mind.
-Wynton Marsalis
Forward of Beyond Category, by John Edward Hasse
Note
Smith Recital Hall
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts | Music | Music Performance
Recommended Citation
Wolfe, Jeff, "Marshall University Music Department Presents a Jazz Ensemble II, Mr. Jeffrey Wolfe, Director" (2013). All Performances. 300.
https://mds.marshall.edu/music_perf/300
