• 11/29/2024

‘Daybreak Express’: Duke Ellington’s Big-Band Locomotive

Wall Street Journal

Recorded 90 years ago, the composer’s wondrous piece is a jazzy ode to the romance and mechanical might of train travel.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/daybreak-express-duke-ellingtons-big-band-locomotive-1933-90th-anniversary-783d6623