The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Chris Searle reviews My Ellington by Aki Takase (Intakt Records 213)
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Looking back over the nigh century of jazz recording, the huge musical stature and canon of Edward “Duke” Ellington (1899-1974) remains as the music’s most powerful and original summation.
To hear the Ellington Orchestra live was to be uplifted not only by a unique amalgam of extraordinary musicians, many of whom had played together for decades and were unified by the maestro’s humanity and genius, but by an artistic intelligence and imagination so rarely fused across the entire realm of 20th-century culture.
Ellington was composer, arranger and orchestrator, and a pianist who grew through the stride of traditions of James P Johnston and Fats Waller to become the prompter of modernists and beboppers like Monk and Bud Powell.
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