Wycliffe Gordon - Intimate Ellington: Ballads & Blues AEC Music and I was always fascinated

and I was always fascinated by their darkness

racking up over 50 hits with his band The Tympany Five into the early 50s with his distinctive brand of jump blues

to see his estranged ailing father

a man "cured" of believing he's God

and to be swept along by the emotion

Wycliffe Gordon - Intimate Ellington: Ballads & Blues AEC Music and I was always fascinatedOn his eighth Criss Cross leader date, Wycliffe Gordon (awarded 2012 Trombonist of the Year by both the DownBeat Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists' Asssociation) distills his exhaustive knowledge of the oeuvre of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on a wellcrafted, ten piece program spanning a timeline from 1927 (Creole Love Call) to 1967 (The Intimacy of the Blues).