This excerpted version of the original, performed during his 1943 Carnegie Hall concert, restrains the ambitions of the original by dividing the formerly three-part, 50-minute suite into six parts totaling around 35 minutes. The work is still gorgeous, as Ellington, to my knowledge, never had a bad band. Jackson's singing on "Come Sunday" and "Psalm 23" are affecting. It lacks some of the power and some ambition from the original performance, but it is a fine addition to a catalog full of masterpieces.
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