JazzBeat 32 - Ellington's New Orleans Suite

JazzBeat 32 - Ellington's New Orleans Suite

Jazz Beat with Tom Reney

10/05/2017 7:53PM

Episode Synopsis "JazzBeat 32 - Ellington's New Orleans Suite"

Tom Reney looks back at Duke Ellington’s “New Orleans Suite,” and the crucial role that Duke and festival producer George Wein played in the establishment of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which just completed its 49th annual presentation in the Crescent City. Wein’s insistence that any festival he produced would include Ellington, who “stayed only in the finest hotels,” and feature integrated ensembles was a spur to ending rigid segregation practices in New Orleans.

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