Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G.
| Swinging Suites by Edward E. & Edward G. | ||||
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| Studio album by Duke Ellington | ||||
| Released | 1961 | |||
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June 28, 29 & 30, and October 10, 1960 Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Genre | Jazz, swing, big band, third stream | |||
| Label | Columbia CL 1597 / CS 8397 | |||
| Producer | Irving Townsend | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
June 28, 29 & 30, and October 10, 1960
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", co-written by Billy Strayhorn. The album was rereleased on CD as Three Suites along with Ellington's reworking of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" in 1990.
The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.
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.
In 1992, The New York Times reviewed a live performance of Ellington's Peer Gynt adaption: "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".
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