Duke Ellington in Philadelphia - 1944
from Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress, page 216:
Cat Anderson joined the band in Philadelphia in 1944. He had had a good musical education and had really mastered the trumpet. Because of the attention he had devoted to high-note technique, he was always given the responsibility of a Babe Ruth when the bases were loaded. All the other cats would do their individual thing, playing true to their tonal personalities, and then for the highspot, for the screeching, clear-over-the-wall, clean-the-bases job, here would come Cat and his acrobatics beyond the limits of the instrument. He did this with an over-500 batting average, but in spite of … more >>
Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress (New Jersey, 1973), p. 216. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1429447093851 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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trumpet music
written by Miles Davis |
performed by William "Cat" Anderson |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1944 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |