[Dixielandjazz] Ghost Ellington

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Marek was right --ECHOES OF ELLINGTON was the band I heard 

and they weren't trying to play the same notes, but the same music, 
studied by ear and transcribed.  I remain impressed by the fact that when 
Stravinsky transcribed Woody Herman he thought there was one trumpet more than 
had been the case. 


I also remember Nat Pierce with an octet producing more of the sound and feeling 
of 1950s Basie than the same number of men playing the same instruments as the 
original. 

Some less discriminating swingband fans might have supposed they were being 
short-changed.