Festival Session APRJ1003 "love" drawn with beautiful and

"love" drawn with beautiful and exciting sounds

with remixes and reimaginings of classics from Donald Byrd

"A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays"

and unpredictable rhythms

They had begun playing in colleges and slowly made their way into concert halls and jazz festivals

Festival Session APRJ1003 "love" drawn with beautiful andIn spite of its title, "Festival Session" is a studio album that primarily featured tunes Duke presented at the Newport and Playboy jazz festivals during 1959. The 1956 Newport Jazz Festival (the third edition of that event), had proven to be essential for Duke Ellingtons career, which at the time was struggling due to the hardships of sustaining a big band. Newport gave jazz a new popular dimension, taking it from a closed nightclub environment to an