Afro Eurasian Eclipse

Duke Ellington - Afro Eurasian Eclipse

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Artist: Duke Ellington
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Ojc
Soundtracks:
  1. Chinoiserie
  2. Didjeridoo
  3. Afrique
  4. Acht O'Clock Rock
  5. Gong
  6. Tang
  7. True
  8. Hard Way

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Music Review: The Eternal Spice Of Life A Person Can Have
Rating: 5 Stars

Well by the early 70's Duke Ellington is approching the end of his life and career and you would think that the man would pretty much be finished as a musical entity. Well it turns out that not only had more up his sleeve. He'd been travelling pretty steadily around the world touring for a good while and had managed to draft many of his cultural observations about what he saw in musical notation. So needless to say this album was strongly effected by all of this. The idea had come to Ellington,as it had to many cultural observers at the time that the world so this album not only reflected that in the melodic ideas but also some more modern Western musical concepts. Ellington was always a progressive musician and since the 50's new genres such as R&B and all of the different subgenres that came with it began to attract the publics attention so Duke was more than willing to adapt to the times in terms of his rhythmic influence.

The great part about this is that Duke was able to do all of this without sacrificing the use of his orchestra which,at this point included his son Mercer on trumpet along with mainstays as Paul Gonsalves,Cootie Williams and Harold Ashby. This suite generally doesn't emphasize soloing as much as it does present a series of interconnected songs where the musicians play collectively such as on the strongly Asian harmony influenced "Chinoiserie". That along with songs such as "Gong","Tang" and "True" all find Duke looking to mix the genres of big band jazz and avante garde as he really expands the disonant piano style he'd been utilizing since the 1920's to the point of it all sound more harmolodic and abstract than anything else. On "Didjeridoo" Rufus Jones really lets go on sound pounding African sounding drumming and than on "Acht O'Clock Rock" and "Afrique" the rhythms are tightened to sound something like....rocking jump blues/R&B/big band soul showcasing how much in fact these genres owed to Ellington himself.

This album isn't one of Ellingtons easiest to get into structurally as it concentrates less on the technique of dancabilit (although much of it is uptempo and dancable) but much the same as Miles Davis's far more electric On the Corner this album uses the idea of disonance and discordant rhythmic ideas than it does on creating a great deal of melody and harmony ideas. It shows you that even as he was reaching the end of his run in every way Duke Ellington still had a mind for new ideas and musical concepts all the time and from very surprising sources. And one of the most interesting aspects of this is,for an album of it's vintage how he insisted on maintaining his orchestra at a time when most new directions in jazz were either produced with smaller groups or fusion oriented bands. While it's no doubt Duke would've definately been using electric instruments had he lived this album would be highly influencial on big band revivals in the years so come such as those by Maynard Furgeson and others. But no one had quite the sound or conceptually broad ideas of Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
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