"The Creeper," Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra (1926)

"The Creeper," Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra (1926)

Arthur Crisp’s textile drawing The Enchanted Isle of Musical Sounds reminds me of early jazz in New York City in the 1920s—evocative, exotic, fresh, energizing, and at times mysterious. “The...

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Arthur Crisp’s textile drawing The Enchanted Isle of Musical Sounds reminds me of early jazz in New York City in the 1920s—evocative, exotic, fresh, energizing, and at times mysterious. “The Creeper” by Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra is a feisty, New Orleans-eque composition from 1926. Text by James Saltzman, Faculty, Manhattan School of Music

http://www.folkways.si.edu/kentucky-club-orchestra/the-creeper/jazz-ragtime/music/track/smithsonian

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