DUKE ELLINGTON
10. Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington–Gordon–Mills)
11. I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) (Ellington–Webster)
Bill Berry (t), Clark Terry (t, flh), Urbie Green (tb), Paul Desmond (as), Gerry Mulligan (bari), Hank Jones (p), Jim Hall (g), Milt Hinton (b), Louie Bellson (d)
„Prelude to a Kiss“: Arrangement von Gerry Mulligan
„I Got It Bad“: nur Green und die Rhythmusgruppe (Jones, Hall, Hinton, Bellson)
East Room, White House, Washington, DC, 20. April 1969
von: 1969 All-Star White House Tribute to Duke Ellington (Blue Note/Capitol, CD, 2002)
Präsident Richard M. Nixon überreicht Duke Ellington im East Room des Weissen Hauses die Presidential Medal of Freedom, 29. April 1969.
Quelle: https://www.whitehousehistory.org/a-duke-at-the-white-house
für später: Footage von der Party im Weissen Haus am 29. April 1969:
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