This CD includes the original 12 tracks on the LP, and 10 alternate/preferred and outtakes. The premiere did not include the final track of the suite 'Circle of Fourths' which was recorded four days later. 'Such Sweet Thunder' premiered at the 'Music for Moderns' concert at the Town Hall (NYC), in April, 1957. This is a re-release of the original 1957 recording for the 'Such Sweet Thunder Suite', a work dedicated to The Shakespeare Festival, Stratford Ontario. Sony Music Entertainment/Columbia Legacy catalog #: CK 65568 (CD), 1999. 'Such Sweet Thunder', Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Columbia catalog #: CL 1033 (LP), 1957. It is the result of an impressive harvesting of contemporary newspapers and journals on Duke Ellington’s whereabouts 1923-1927.ĭavid Palmquist’s invaluable online database The Duke Where and When (TDWAW). Ken Steiner’s Wild Throng Dances Madly in Cellar Club.

It is a very solid discography and has a lot of good information about his whereabouts. Guy Demole’s Sidney Bechet – His musical activities from 1907 to 1959. It has some information about what Bechet did in 1924-1925 but for crucial dates, it is rather incomplete. John Chilton’s well researched and detailed biography of Bechet – Sidney Bechet The Wizard of Jazz. This article will try to find the dates when Bechet played with Ellington as a member of The Washingtonians. It is difficult to understand how Ellington made this mistake (or was it Stanley Dance’s error?). By that time, Bechet was in Europe with Revue Negre (The Black Revue) and he stayed there until 1930.

So was it in mid-1924 or in 1926 that Bechet became a member of The Washingtonians? In Treat Me Gentle, Bechet says that he linked up with Ellington in mid 1924 “It was a fine thing to playing with Duke Ellington in 1924.” However, in Music Is My Mistress Ellington says that Sidney Bechet joined his band in 1926. This presumption is based upon what Bechet and Ellington say in their respective autobiographies

It is generally presumed that Sidney Bechet played with Duke Ellington in the mid-20s as a member of The Washingtonians.

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