"Ellington At Newport 1956 Often regarded as the best performance of his
career, in 1956, Duke Ellington and his band recorded their historic
concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, revitalizing Ellington's waning
career. Jazz promoter George Wein describes the 1956 concert as "the
greatest performance of Ellington's career... It stood for everything
that jazz had been and could be." Ellington had lately been connecting
the songs "Diminuendo in Blue" and "Crescendo in Blue" in a medley via a
tenor solo from saxophonist Paul Gonsalves. At Newport, Gonsalves
summoned a 27-chorus workout so inspired and transcendent that the
audience was practically rioting by the time he had finished. Orchestra
and audience both remained at a fever pitch for the rest of the show
(vividly captured on the live album Ellington at Newport)."
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