Newport Jazz Festival 1974 Jam for Duke Ellington (audio only)

Newport Jazz Festival 1974 - Jam for Duke Ellington - ’Take The A Train’ Jam Session feat. Freddie Waits on drums, Larry Ridley on bass, Earl “Fatha“ Hines on piano, Budd Johnson on soprano saxophone, Art Farmer on flugelhorn, Teddy Wilson on piano, Vic Dickinson on trombone, Richard Davis on bass, John Blair on the vitar, Patti Bown on piano, Gary Burton on vibraphone, Art Blakey on drums, Jimmy Owens on flugelhorn, Bill Watrous on trombone, Jimmy Smith on organ, George Wein on piano, Gerry Mulligan on saxophone, Sonny Stitt on saxophone. Jam for Duke Ellington - 1974. Edward Kennedy “Duke“ Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974). Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl “Fatha“ Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983). Larry Ridley (born September 3, 1937) is an American jazz bassist and music educator. Frederick “Freddie“ Douglas Waits (April 27, 1943 – November 18, 1989). Albert J. “Budd“ Johnson III (December 14, 1910 – October 20, 1984). Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999). Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990). Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986). Victor Dickinson (August 6, 1906 – November 16, 1984). John Franklin Blair Violinist & guitarist born November 8th 1943 Toledo, Ohio. Richard Davis (born April 15, 1930) is an American jazz bassist. Among his best-known contributions to the albums of others are Eric Dolphy’s Out to Lunch!, Andrew Hill’s Point of Departure, and Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, of which critic Greil Marcus wrote (in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll), “Richard Davis provided the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album. Patti Bown (July 26, 1931, Seattle, Washington – March 21, 2008, Media, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and singer. Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator, and his sound and technique are widely imitated. He is also known for pioneering fusion jazz and popularizing the duet format in jazz, as well as being a major figure in music education from his 30 years at the Berklee College of Music. Jimmy Owens (born December 9, 1943) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator. He has played with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Hank Crawford, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Herbie Mann, among many others. Since 1969, he has led his own group, Jimmy Owens Plus. William Russell Watrous III (June 8, 1939 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known for his rendition of Sammy Nestico’s arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad “A Time for Love“, which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name. A self-described “bop-oriented“ player, he was well known among trombonists as a master technician and for his mellifluous sound. James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1925 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician whose albums often appeared on Billboard magazine charts. He helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music. In 2005, Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honor that America bestows upon jazz musicians. Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. His pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the best cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Several of his compositions, such as “Walkin’ Shoes“ and “Five Brothers“, have become standards. George Wein (October 3, 1925 – September 13, 2021) was an American jazz promoter, pianist, and producer. He was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, which is held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. He also co-founded the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger and Theodore Bikel and was instrumental in the founding of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording more than 100 albums.