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Come Sunday by Duke Ellington. Clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, cello. First chorus is duet by clarinet and bass clarinet. Second has all 5 instruments. Flute and clarinet take the melody. (Merlin Vienna 3)
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D Camp's fictitious chamber orchestra. Composed or re-arranged by D Camp. Enjoy.
I am Mr D Camp. My hobby is composing and arranging tunes using music software. Ever since I could listen to music, I always wished I could re-arrange it. I did not have a group of musicians. Now in the computer age with music software I am able to listen to what I hear in my head. The 178th street chamber orchestra is my fictitious group of virtual musicians who sometimes collaborate with other fictitious groups such as the Bathgate Avenue Boys Choir or the Beneath-the-Expressway Rhythm Kings. I compose original tunes. I re-arrange existing tunes. I try to keep these as short as possible. Two minutes is an epic. Some are easy listening. Some are experimental. I do this for my personal enjoyment but I hope you enjoy too. Thank you.
Song Info
Genre
Classical • Chamber Music
Charts
Peak #21
Peak in subgenre #4
Uploaded
April 10, 2021
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MP3
MP3 2.4 MB • 128 kbps • 2:39
Story behind the song
Come Sunday was originally composed by Duke Ellington in 1943 as first movement in the suite "Black, Brown and Beige". Soloist was alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges. The definitive version is sung in 1958 by Mahalia Jackson, who I call the voice of God. Recently I have been listening to a lot of jazz reed player Eric Dolphy. I "attended" a course on Dolphy given by Swing University of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The instructor was Sherman Irby, alto saxophonist of Wynton Marsalis's JALC orchestra. Anyway on the album "Iron Man" there is a duet of Come Sunday with bass player Richard Davis and Dolphy on bass clarinet. Davis bows the melody while Dolphy improvises around him. Amazing. I was inspired. Come Sunday has a simple melody but with a complicated harmonic background. I feel guilty re-arranging a classic tune. I won't do Stardust, Sophisticated Lady, Misty or Yesterday, for example. But this was an exercise in harmony for 5 instruments. By the way the 5 instruments are all heard on the Dolphy album "Out There" with legend Ron Carter on rare jazz cello and Dolphy on the winds. My tempo is much faster. While I am dropping names, Eric Dolphy was suggested to me by the author Sapphire who was my sister's roommate back in the day. Mahalia Jackson. Prepare to be moved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmhcfWs3R0w Johnny Hodges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8VXdzYobM Eric Dolphy and Richard Davis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2lA-MqjGU
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