Only the Chicago Jazz Ensemble has provided the repertoire treasures a city with Chicago's cultural status demands. The CJE, under the direction of trumpet great Jon Faddis, is dedicated to reviving the great works of Duke Ellington. You would be hard pressed to find more glorious works by Duke than Black, Brown and Beige, his first suite that portrays African-American history, and the New Orleans Suite, which has special relevance in the post-Katrina era but has always moved people with its elegant classicism and bluesy modernism.
 

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