Duke Ellington in São Paulo - 1968

from Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress, page 369:

After this second concert [in Sao Paolo, 1968] we go to a little club whose owner has been persuaded by Peter Solmssen, the U. S. Cultural Affairs Officer, to bring in some of the native cats from the mountains. There is quite a bit of jazz being exhibited in Brazil by both local and visiting musicians, and I really don't need to hear that, for I hear it every day. I want to hear Brazilian music… [W]hen I eventually get to concentrate on the sounds I realize that this is the nearest I have ever been to Africa musically--apart, that is, from our trip to Dakar [Senegal] last year. Yet it is …   more >>
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Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress (New Jersey, 1973), p. 369. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1429890778016 accessed: 29 March, 2024

location of experience: São Paulo

Listeners

Duke Ellington
lyricist, performer, piantist, Composer […]
1899-1974

Listening to

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Traditional Brazilian music

Experience Information

Date/Time 1968
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:52:58 +0100
Approved on Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:03:24 +0100