Hot fives and sevens

Singing like an angel and pecking at the bones before someone's pet destroys them 👍

I think he was definitely more 'interesting' than likeable. I mean he treated his wife appallingly and had people running round in rings to organise his life for him. But out of this came the music ... I have to say I have to admire audacious bastards on occasion (with fingers across my eyes)

You mean you agree/don't agree he was dismal?

Tick ☑️

*recent*

These revent transfers though - fucking amazing 😮 www.fremeaux.com/fr/7146-duke...

Duke Ellington at his Very Best - The Jimmy Blanton, Billy Strayhorn, Ben Webster Sessions

Legendary Works 1940-1942

Plus excessive medication (me) so I am cognitively challenged 😁

This is all very true. But the reliance on people who had a better knowledge of music to get where they ended up was my thang. Plus the Duke was a bit of a dismal git in his personal life is a given, no?

Duke Ellington and Mark E Smith had similar agendas* *This is the conclusion of a very flawed study, but I'm sticking with it, by golly so I am.