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Such Sweet Thunder: Music of the Duke Ellington Orchestra

by: Lorraine Feather

Release Date February 15, 2005
What a fabulous treat this CD is for anyone who loves hearing jazz "stories" sung by someone who can do it all. Lorraine Feather, god-daughter of Billie Holiday and family friend of Duke Ellington, here creates delightful and often humorous lyrics for many of Ellington's songs, all of them becoming musical stories about people living their lives and loves the only way they know how. Backed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, she sings (frantically) of an equally frantic woman chasing her departing lover down "The 101," of a young couple about to move from the city to a rural cottage by the sea in "Backwater Town," of the girl whose lovers never match the "Imaginary Guy" of her dreams, and of the "Peaceful Kingdom," inspired by Edward Hicks's ... Read More: