BLACK BROWN & BEIGE

«Claude at some time or other, had to have hung out with the wrong people to get the right feeling of soul interpreted in his version, or should I say this version of Black, Brown and Beige. You’ll fin the occasions rare where this work is performed in its entirety. Yeah, even Duke Ellington only performed it completely twice in the course of his life. (…) Thank goodness he [Bolling] helps to keep the genius of Duke Ellington alive. And one further word: it takes a genius to know a genius.» Mercer ELLINGTON