Orquestra De Cambra Teatre Lliure - Tributes to Duke Ellington (1999)

This is the third work of the Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure for Fresh Sound New Talent. The homage that the orchestra proposes to us is radically different from all the others that have been done around the world during the year of the centenary of Duke Ellington birth. It is, in effect, a bouquet of homages rolled into one, that expresses itself in an array of compositions which famous msicians have expressly dedicated to the figure of the Duke, and we are referring to such outstanding names as C.Mingus, M.Davis, S.Wonder, W.The Lion Smith, C.Fischer, F.Koglmann, and Lluis Vidal too who has now combined these pieces into a meaningful orchestration.

Xavier Figuerola (saxes, cl), Matthew Simon (tp, flh), Sergi Vergés (tb, tuba), Pere Bardagí (violin), Lluís Vidal (p), Dani Pérez (g), Alexis Cuadrado (b), David Xirgu (d)