• 4 Panel Digipack

Pioneering trumpeter, composer Cuong Vu and pianist Richard Karpen push the envelope by not releasing a cut and dry tribute to Duke Ellington and his counterpart Billy Strayhorn . With a standard jazz quartet supported by iPad and electronics performers, to say this album follows mainstream jazz guidelines would be a miscue of sorts. Unconventional wisdom and atypical treatments accentuate this production of three Ellington-Strayhorn compositions and several originals by the quartet.

PERSONNEL:

• Cuong Vu - trumpet
• Richard Karpen - piano
• Luke Bergman - bass
• Ted Poor - drums

TRACKS:

• 01. L'Heure Bleue
• 02. Indigo Mist
• 03. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
• 04. Billy
• 05. Duke
• 06. In A Sentimental Mood
• 07. Charles
• 08. Lush Life
• 09. The Electric Mist
• 10. Mood Indigo