Duke Ellington - "Such Sweet Thunder" Pure Pleasure label_Soul Jazz Records The music on The Bible

The music on The Bible is more unpredictable than it's ever been on a Lambchop record

and personal work to date

Savage displays the poet's gift of knowing when to narrate and when to vanish

and follows his April 2021 album

The trio of Grant Green

Duke Ellington - "Such Sweet Thunder" Pure Pleasure label_Soul Jazz Records The music on The BibleThis music counts among Ellington's most well realized "concept projects," all inspired by Shakespeare's work and filled with memorable melodies and ample opportunities for solos by Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, and Quentin Jackson. The Ellington Strayhorn compositions treat their soloists like actors doing scenes and, in effect, playing parts, even quoting lines after a fashion Clark Terry "plays" Puck in "Up and Down, Up and Down (I