Sacred Concert (Ellington)

Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington is one of the following realisations:

  • 1965 - Concert of Sacred Music
  • 1968 - Second Sacred Concert
  • 1973 - Third Sacred Concert

Ellington called these concerts "the most important thing I have ever done". He said many times that he was not trying to compose a Mass. The critic Gary Giddins has characterized these concerts as Ellington bringing the Cotton Club revue to the church.[1]

  1. ^ Giddins, Gary Visions of Jazz: The First Century (ISBN 0195076753) p. 491.