Duke Ellington - "Such Sweet Thunder" Pure Pleasure label_Soul Jazz Records and his estate has granted

and his estate has granted ABKCO exclusive use to manufacture his images and signature

The album has been certified gold by the RIAA in the United States

and personal work to date

and follows his April 2021 album

The trio of Grant Green

Duke Ellington - "Such Sweet Thunder" Pure Pleasure label_Soul Jazz Records and his estate has grantedThis music counts among Ellington's most well realized "concept projects," all inspired by Shakespeare's work and filled with memorable melodies and ample opportunities for solos by Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, and Quentin Jackson. The Ellington Strayhorn compositions treat their soloists like actors doing scenes and, in effect, playing parts, even quoting lines after a fashion Clark Terry "plays" Puck in "Up and Down, Up and Down (I