One would be very hard-pressed to say that about many things in life. His music never disappoints and is always satisfying. The richness of his musical legacy is such that it can be returned to time again in search of such inspiration with each visit making the listener long for the next one. Sales does an admirable job in his essay of identifying the salient features which placed Duke’s music ‘beyond category’ especially in the section of his piece he labels: “Duke’s Mixture: Ellington’s Fusion.”ĭuke Ellington was one of the geniuses that are periodically placed amongst us to inspire the rest of us to great things. Sales in this month’s “Notable Critic” portion of the blog.Īs to the Jazzprofiles editorial staff’s admiration of Duke Ellington’s music, if the Duke will forgive the weak effort at a pun, it is “beyond category.” In his A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare may have inadvertently best described it with his phrase – “Such Sweet Thunder” and the Duke may have agreed with this categorization of his music when he adopted the expression as the title of one of his musical suites. The editorial staff at Jazzprofiles has long admired Grover Sales and his writings about Jazz so much so, that it also decided to feature Mr.
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