Abstract
For my teenage dance combo The Starlighters, I wrote arrangements of Mood Indigo and Caravan, trying to imitate the voicings I heard on the 78 rpm recordings I had been collecting. It was the mid-1940s and I was a fan of Duke Ellington's music, along with that of other big bands of my youth. I do not recall hearing Black, Brown and Beige. Who besides Ellington connoisseurs did in those days? But somewhere in my unconscious the provocative title was stored away, together with a sense that this was an important, serious work. Years passed. I developed from a trumpeter and arranger into a professional conductor. Then one fated day I met the man himself.
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