31 Oct 2014

Come Sunday

Find spirituality in Ellington’s genius

31 Oct 2014

What makes a ‘spiritual’ a spiritual? Hundreds of years being sung in the church or maybe just the combination of Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson? Written by Duke for his symphony ‘Black, Brown and Biege,’ this song is at once the most mournful and most hopeful thing you’ll ever hear.

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