Duke Ellington / Sacred Music (1999)

[Duke Ellington / Sacred Music (1999) by the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra] features Ducal rarities - "A Song for Christmas" and "Three Black Kings" [first movement] - plus selections from the Sacred Concert repertory including "Heaven," "The Shepherd," "Freedom," and "David Danced" with vocal soloists, tap dancer, and eighty-voice choir [combined MIT Concert Choir and the Choir of Men and Boys from All Saints Parish, Ashmont, in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood]. As recorded by WGBH at the Ellington Centennial concert at MIT in 1999.

Mark Harvey, Music Director, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra