The world-renowned Duke Ellington Orchestra will jazz up the Yavapai College Performance Hall with a scintillating selection of standards on Friday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. The show is presented by Yavapai College Community Events and co-sponsored by KKLD 95.9 FM, KQNA 1130 AM and the Performing Arts Charitable Endowment (PACE).
Tickets for this show are $35, $33 and $31. Tickets are available online at www.tickets.com (search for “Yavapai College”). Tickets may also be purchased at the YC Community Events Ticket Office (928-776-2000; toll-free 1-877-928-4253), located in the Lobby of the YC Performance Hall, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Yavapai College Performance Hall is located on the Prescott campus at 1100 E. Sheldon St.
The Duke Ellington Orchestra is a national treasure and among the greatest jazz bands of all time. With such instantly recognizable songs as “Take the A Train,” “Satin Doll,” “I Got It Bad,” “All of Me,” “It Don't Mean a Thing,” the Ellington Orchestra continues to thrill audiences around the world.
The 16-person outfit pays homage to the Duke’s legacy, always performing in black-tie, with shoes and horns gleaming. The orchestra includes Barrie Lee Hall, Jr., who actually worked with Duke Ellington.
With the variously named bands he led from 1919 until his death in 1974, Ellington was responsible for many innovations in the jazz field, such as "jungle-style" use of the growl and plunger, and the manipulation of the human voice as an instrument--singing notes without words.
Duke Ellington was eulogized as "the supreme jazz talent of the past fifty years" by critic Alistair Cooke in a 1983 issue of Esquire. A prolific composer, Ellington created over two thousand pieces of music, including the songs that have become standards for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. "No one else," concluded Cooke, "in the eighty- or ninety-year history of jazz, created so personal an orchestral sound and so continuously expanded the jazz idiom."
Comments () |
|
|
|
|
 |
