Reminiscing In Tempo: Music of Duke Ellington
Reminiscing In Tempo: Music of Duke Ellington
Tue 17 November 2026
Stage time / 8:00pm
Doors / 7:00pm
Celebrating the Jazz Clubs
Tickets
£11 incl. fees
Reminiscing In Tempo is a new project featuring freewheeling reinterpretations of the music of Duke Ellington that has been put together specially for EFG London Jazz Festival by Jazz at Trades.
Ellington’s music was constantly in flux, with many of his well known compositions being rearranged over and over again throughout his career (his first opportunity to record long form versions of his compositions on 1951’s Masterpieces By Ellington features an 11 minute long arrangement of Sophisticated Lady, that is almost symphonic in scope). With this adventurous and ever innovative spirit in mind Jazz at Trades has commissioned ambitious new arrangements of the music of Duke Ellington to be played by a group of improvisers who each, as bandleaders and composers themselves, are always seeking to expand the language of their own music.
Kim Macari – trumpet
Reiss Ellis Beckles – alto saxophone
Riley Stone-Lonergan – tenor saxophone
Olly Chalk – piano
Tom Rivière – double bass
George Grundy – drums
Ellington’s music was constantly in flux, with many of his well known compositions being rearranged over and over again throughout his career (his first opportunity to record long form versions of his compositions on 1951’s Masterpieces By Ellington features an 11 minute long arrangement of Sophisticated Lady, that is almost symphonic in scope). With this adventurous and ever innovative spirit in mind Jazz at Trades has commissioned ambitious new arrangements of the music of Duke Ellington to be played by a group of improvisers who each, as bandleaders and composers themselves, are always seeking to expand the language of their own music.
Kim Macari – trumpet
Reiss Ellis Beckles – alto saxophone
Riley Stone-Lonergan – tenor saxophone
Olly Chalk – piano
Tom Rivière – double bass
George Grundy – drums
