I fell in love with this tune when I got to perform it on Billy Strayhorn's piano as part of the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra's tour of New York in Summer 2016. My own arrangement does not wander too far from Ellington / Strayhorn's already beautiful harmony, framing it only with the JS Bach prelude BWV 848.
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from Mellow Tones,
released December 13, 2016
Recorded and Mastered by Tim Davies.
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