Event
Fleet Week Revisited: "Take the 'A' Train"
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Fee:
Free.Dates & Times
Date:
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Time:
2:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Virtual/Digital
Description
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Rangers Jon Beebe and James Barry join forces with Marine Musicians from U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve Band and Navy Musicians from Navy Band Southeast to form an All-Star band. In this music video, the combined band performs the Billy Strayhorn classic "Take the A Train," the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
The Jazz classic was composed in 1939, after Ellington offered Strayhorn a job in his organization and gave him money to travel from Pittsburgh to New York City. Ellington wrote directions for Strayhorn to get to his house by subway, directions that began, "Take the A Train".
The rest, as they say, is history!
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