Arnie Somogyi / Edwards,Mark * Ellington Piano Project: Eastbourne 1973 [New CD] Outlaw Country After crisscrossing the nation for

After crisscrossing the nation for the last half-decade looking for a home

On this reissue

Sure Is Funky

and a slightly trippy patina to each track

Moderato ma giocoso

Arnie Somogyi / Edwards,Mark * Ellington Piano Project: Eastbourne 1973 [New CD] Outlaw Country After crisscrossing the nation forIn the winter of 1973, at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne on the Sussex coast, Duke Ellington gave what was to be his final public performance. The finest jazz tune smith, and his band somewhat depleted of some of it's finest improvisers due to death or retirement, gave what was seen upon the release of the album of the concert on RCA, as a valedictory performance. Not widely known at the time was that the Duke was suffering from the cancer that