Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
"Presenting the great works of jazz"
Sacred Music of Duke Ellington
Published on Seattle's award-winning record label, Origin Records, the Sacred Music of Duke Ellington 2-CD set includes a 12-page booklet featuring many photos plus a history of the Duke Ellington Sacred Concerts in Seattle, an annual production that dates back to 1989.
"Every man prays in his own language, and there is no language that God does not understand."–Duke Ellington
The two-CD set is a collection of the SRJO's best recordings made at concerts between 2001 and 2005 in performance at the annual Duke Ellington Sacred Music Concert presented each year by Earshot Jazz.
The three Sacred Music Concerts that Ellington premiered in 1965, 1968, and 1973, and were the culmination of the last, liturgical phase of his life's work. Highlights include the epic pieces "Praise God and Dance" and "In the Beginning God," the spirited "Ninety-Nine Percent" and "Don't Get Down on Your Knees to Pray Until You Have Forgiven Everyone," and the stirring ballads "Heaven" and "Too Good to Title."
Special guests on the SRJO recording include internationally renowned jazz singer Dee Daniels, Seattle vocal stars James Caddell and Nichol Eskridge, and the award winning Oregon Repertory Singers.
Also featured are SRJO soloists, including pianist Larry Fuller, trumpeters Jay Thomas and Thomas Marriott, saxophonists Hadley Caliman, Bill Ramsay and Mark Taylor, and bassist Phil Sparks, plus the SRJO's two artistic directors, saxophonist Michael Brockman and drummer Clarence Acox.
SAMPLE THE SONGS ON THIS CD Click on any of the following to hear an excerpt from the CD (MP3 files each approximately 2-3 MB) Track 1 IN THE BEGINNING GOD Track 2 TELL ME IT'S THE TRUTH Track 3 COME SUNDAY (INSTRUMENTAL) Track 4 IT'S FREEDOM (The Freedom Suite) Track 5 T.G.T.T. (Too Good to Title) Track 6 DON'T GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES TO PRAY Track 7 NINETY-NINE PERCENT Track 8 THE LORD'S PRAYER (a cappella chorale) Track 9 HEAVEN Track 10 THE LORD'S PRAYER (gospel version) Track 11 REFLECTIONS IN D Track 12 DAVID DANCED BEFORE THE LORD WITH ALL HIS MIGHT Track 13 COME SUNDAY (vocal solo) Track 14 PRAISE GOD AND DANCE
The Endless Search
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or email the SRJO at srjo@comcast.org. SRJO performs songs by Count Basie, Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Jimmie Lunceford and others.
Performers on this CD include Mark Taylor, Michael Brockman, Don Lanphere, Floyd Standifer and Bill Ramsay.
You'll love their performance of "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and "Blue and Sentimental."
This album has received stellar reviews across the country.
SRJO CD Recordings
performed by the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
with Dee Daniels,
James Caddell, and the Oregon Repertory Singers
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performed by the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
featuring special guest composer, saxophonist, and NEA Jazz Master
Jimmy Heath
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We are proud to present our newest CD,
The Endless Search,
featuring:
The premiere recording of Jimmy Heath's "The Endless Search Suite" in three movements;
The premiere recording of Jimmy Heath's "Sleeves;"
"Passage Noir" by SRJO Co-Artistic Director and saxophonist/arranger Michael Brockman;
"Haitian Fight Song" by Charles Mingus
"Creole Love Call" by Duke Ellington.
"...leaps out of the speakers with a rich fanfare of gorgeous harmony and tight rhythmic zest...one of the top big band efforts of the year"
(read the full review at:
allaboutjazz.com)
recorded in concerts by the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
featuring SRJO soloists Don Lanphere, Floyd Standifer, Marc Seales, Jay Thomas, and many others.
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