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        orch. by Duke Ellington and Luther Henderson; edited by Gunther Schuller

        • 3(III:pic).2(II:ca).3+bcl.2(II:cbn)/4.4.3.1/timp.4perc/pf.hp/str.db
        • Jazz Band: 2asx.2tsx.barsx/4tpt.3tbn/pf/dmkit/jazzdb
        • 17 min

        Programme Note

        Among one of the Duke’s most ambitious “tone parallels” (a series of large-scale works written to portray the history of African-Americans through their music), Night Creature makes use of jazz band, solo piano, and orchestra to effectively demonstrate the musical ingenuity of marrying symphonic structures with jazz idioms.

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