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Swinging Suites by Edward E. & Edward G. (also known as Peer Gynt Suite/Suite Thursday) is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia label in 1960 featuring a jazz interpretation of "Peer Gynt" by Grieg and Ellington's tribute to John Steinbeck's "Sweet Thursday".[1] The album was rereleased on CD as Three Suites along with Ellington's reworking of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" in 1990.

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.[2]

Professional ratings
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Allmusic[2]

In the 1960s, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music made a statement, referring to a Swedish paragraph called "Klassikerskyddet" ("Protection of Classics") in the copyright legislation, that Duke Ellington's jazz versions on the album were "offending to the nordic music culture". Ellington withdrew the album and the case was never tried in court.[3]

In 1992, The New York Times reviewed a live performance of the Per Gynt-suites that "the pieces, with their dense and gorgeous harmonies, lend themselves perfectly to live performance" and "the melody kept peeking around creamy harmonies, hurtling up-tempo sections abruptly merged with ballads".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

  1. "Morning Mood" (Grieg) - 4:24
  2. "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (Grieg) - 2:33
  3. "Solvejg's Song" (Grieg) - 3:59
  4. "Ase's Death" (Grieg) - 3:47
  5. "Anitra's Dance" (Grieg) - 2:58
  6. "Misfit Blues" - 4:09
  7. "Schwiphti" - 3:04
  8. "Zweet Zurzday" - 3:56
  9. "Lay-By" - 4:50
  • Recorded at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles on June 28 (tracks 1 & 5), June 29 (tracks 3 & 4), June 30 (track 2), and October 10 (tracks 6-9), 1960.[citation needed]

Personnel

References

  1. ^ A Duke Ellington Panorama accessed May 28, 2010
  2. ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed May 28, 2010
  3. ^ Marianne Levin. Lärobok i immaterialrätt (p 167-168), 2011, Nordstedts Juridik. Tionde upplagan. ISBN 978-91-39-20550-0.
  4. ^ Peter Watrous. "Review/Jazz; Variations on a Theme of Ellington", The New York Times, 10 August 1992. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
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