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    DUKE! JONI! THE SUNDAYS!

    May 20, 2021 2 minutes
    MICHAELANGELO MATOS

    DUKE ELLINGTON

    ELLINGTON AT NEWPORT COLUMBIA, 1956

    PRINCE was the son of a jazz pianist father and vocalist mother, but his own interest in classic jazz was a slow evolution. He credited his longtime saxophonist, Eric Leeds, for turning him on to Duke Ellington’s comeback concert recording, whose 15-minute “Diminuendo And Concerto In Blue” featured a show-stopping Paul Gonsalves solo. Prince especially dug that “the solo went as long as it did [

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