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Duke Ellington's Sound of Love | 
| Artist: The Vienna Art Orchestra
Label: TCB
Category: Music
Used (5) from £8.62
Sales Rank: 369024
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 723723761224
EAN: 7237237612246
ASIN: B000046S05
Release Date: February 15, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Red Garter | | • | Very Sepcial | | • | Blues in Blueprint | | • | Mood Indigo | | • | Smada | | • | Warm Valley | | • | Circle of Fourths | | • | Take the "A" Train | | • | After All | | • | I'm Just a Lucky So and So | | • | Blood Count | | • | Rockin' in Rhythm | | • | Little Max (Parfait) | | • | Sophisticated Lady |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Recorded live during the Vienna Art Orchestra's 1999 European spring tour, Sound Of Love celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899-1974). One of the true pioneers of jazz, this 14-track programme demonstrates why Duke Ellington reigned omnipotently over the jazz landscape. Though VAO founder Mathias Ruegg is enough of a purist to go back to the original charts to build his new arrangements, Sound Of Love is more of a reincarnation than a resurrection. Still, if Ellington's body is sometimes transformed, the soul remains the same. Ruegg's main changes are the elimination of the piano and the substitution of big band atmospheres for blues moods. Like Ellington, Ruegg excels in providing a vision of how master soloists can be blended into a theatrical jazz performance. Saxophonist Andy Scherrer contributes a smooth, rustic glow to "Warm Valley", while the abstract rendering of "Take the A Train" by bass clarinetist Klaus Dickbauer and bassist Georg Breinschmid would have raised the eyebrows of Duke alter-ego Billy Strayhorn (also represented by "Smada" and "Circle In Fourth"). Ellington's conflation of Harlem Stride with New Orleans and New York big-band sophistication can be traced in the cantilena opener ("Red Garter"), though less so in the revamped trombone and guitar duet in "Mood Indigo". The sultry, probing vocals of Anna Lauvergnac adorn readings of "I'm Just A Lucky So And So" and "Blood Count", before a surprisingly subdued reading of "Sophisticated Lady" brings this reverential but innovative encounter to a close. --Kevin Mulhall
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