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Gramophone Concert “Jazz Summit (39) – Birth of a Duke”
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A cycle of gramophone concerts is regularly held within the lecture theatre Academia of the Intermediatheque. This concert series focuses on the Satoshi Yuze record collection, from which we select famous 1920-1940s jazz recordings. We play them on the illustrious Victrola Credenza gramophone in order to share a quality of sound which has now vanished from public spaces.
March 1923: 23-year old Edward Ellington, who had just moved from Washington to New York, was pursuing his own style while accompanying commonplace singers. Except his aristocratic nickname, nothing could presage that he would eventually lead the jazz world. However, during his four-year engagement at the Club Kentucky in Broadway until 1927, along with trumpeter Bubber Miley, he developed an original East Coast jazz style, and laid the foundations for the first Ellington jazz orchestra. Here, we will reconsider Ellington’s initial experimentations, from his first orchestra recording to his famous tune East St. Louis Toodle-O.
Organization: The University Museum, the University of Tokyo
Cooperation: Hideki Umeda + Mac Sugisaki
Program Conception: Intermediatheque Department, The University Museum, the University of Tokyo
March 1923: 23-year old Edward Ellington, who had just moved from Washington to New York, was pursuing his own style while accompanying commonplace singers. Except his aristocratic nickname, nothing could presage that he would eventually lead the jazz world. However, during his four-year engagement at the Club Kentucky in Broadway until 1927, along with trumpeter Bubber Miley, he developed an original East Coast jazz style, and laid the foundations for the first Ellington jazz orchestra. Here, we will reconsider Ellington’s initial experimentations, from his first orchestra recording to his famous tune East St. Louis Toodle-O.
Organization: The University Museum, the University of Tokyo
Cooperation: Hideki Umeda + Mac Sugisaki
Program Conception: Intermediatheque Department, The University Museum, the University of Tokyo
Schedule | May 27 (Sat) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.intermediatheque.jp/en/schedule/view/id/IMT0141 | ||||
| Venue | Intermediatheque http://www.intermediatheque.jp/en/ | ||||
| Location | 2F, 3F JP Tower 2-7-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-7003 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from the Marunouchi South exit of JR Tokyo Station, 2 minute walk from exit 4 at Nijubashimae Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial) | ||||
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