Dissecting Midriff at Ellington ’97
This is from Sunday afternoon May 25th at Ellington ’97. The title in the program is Happy Anatomy? but the subtitle says more – Midriff dissected. For almost 45 minutes Pete…
Loren Schoenberg on Midriff
Billy Strayhorn composed Midriff in 1944. Its first appearance in the Ellington discographies (NDESOR) is Ellington’s first Carnegie Hall concert in December 1944 and was quite prominently featured in the…